Is there a term to describe all Windows, Mac and Linux machines?
"PC" excludes Macs, "desktop" excludes laptops, and there are debates over whether a mobile device counts as a "computer" or not.
Is there a term to describe all Windows, Mac and Linux machines?
Henry Jones
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Jonathan Wright
Use the term "systems"
Basically covers everything that has a processor in it.
Asher Morales
macOS = Linux + [Windows-Games]
Henry Hughes
PCs. Mac's are PCs. The whole Mac isn't PC thing was a marketing meme.
Xavier Gutierrez
>"PC" excludes Macs
No.
Thomas King
"rigs"
Anthony Brown
>macOS
Austin Bell
Probably PC, since the difference between Macs and the Wintel machines is moot at this point (will change once Apple gets off the Intel train).
Arguably "computer" as well, since to the normies, smartphones and tablets form a different category than desktops and laptops, even though they are all 'computers' as well, just like '[game] console' vs PC.
Wyatt Torres
Should have clarified, I meant *exclusively* Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
Jack Bennett
Ah, Personal Systems or "PC" since it is a personal computer
Jonathan Martinez
What's a computer?
Andrew Mitchell
All of them are computer, idiot
Jonathan Parker
Macs are PCs
Luis Watson
Workstation.
Anthony Rogers
>"PC" excludes Macs
Wrong.
Jace Hill
Both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have referred to Macs as "PCs" (albeit usually when trying to imply they're an old idea to be replaced with iPads)
Hudson Parker
>personal computers excludes macs
Aaron Watson
only lamers thinks mac is not pc.
Gavin Price
The idea is macs not being PCs were that they had ppc processors so were architecturally different devices.
Since they adopted Intel x86/64. They are exactly the same
Caleb Young
>The idea is macs not being PCs were that they had ppc processors so were architecturally different devices.
That's because IBM tried to copyright the name PC for 8086 and successors.
Cooper Cruz
IBM compatible PCs. (if we are not talking about obsolete G4 rubbish)
Wyatt Powell
Most modern desktop computers are not IBM compatible anymore though, nowadays it's just a generic, non-technical term for actually indicating perdonal computers
Cooper Torres
They are indeed. You still can buy modern mobos with ISA slot. The problem is that it all is a simulation on CPU level.
Brayden Green
Shitpost-mobile.
Cooper Collins
PC does not exclude macs, you stupid fucking faggot
Zachary Robinson
Yes - microcomputers.
Camden Rivera
You mean, something like "Windows, Mac and Linux machines"? It's software, dipshit.
Wyatt Fisher
PC/AT
Daniel Stewart
No. Why would you want a term that generalized anyway? I don't want to be associated with faggots.
Computer is too broad.
PC does not work because all of those OSes can be used on servers or phones.
IBM compatible does not work since these OSes can be used on non-Intel computers.
Ryder Anderson
niggas?
Ryan Cook
This. It may be true that most people wouldn't think of a mac when thinking of a PC but same goes for computers and mobile phones and OP states that is not specific enough. OP is a dumbass as usual.
Jose Flores
If you say 'Personal Computer' instead of 'PC' then I think it pretty clearly indicates what you want. Or 'Desktops/Laptops'
Justin Cruz
Electronic computational machines.
Jace Hernandez
Computers, you retard.
Christian Ortiz
>PC excludes Macs
That's wrong.
Machine using Mac OS is just a personall computer with a more retarded OS.
Robert Ortiz
just use computer
the only debate of whether small devices with fully fledged microprocessors are computers is among retards who don't know what a computer is
only pedantic morons on the losing side of an argument will nitpick your usage of "computer" attempting to feel like they won by technicality, and if some idiot starts blathering about phones and microcontrollers when you're clearly talking about desktops or servers in context, their braindead opinions aren't worth worrying about anyway
Luis Moore
they may technically be personal computers but the acronym PC is pretty much synonymous with Wintel IBM compatibles and no longer a good term to use when generalizing all personal computers, for which the expanded term is more suitable
Xavier Carter
What specifically differentiates desktops and laptops from other computers such as a raspberry pi or a smart phone?
Kayden Ortiz
Form factor and use case.
Alexander Brown
x86_64 steam-gaymes-compatible computers.
Nathaniel Brown
can you be more specific about factor and use case?
Adrian Turner
It seems as though it's becoming just about form.
Logan Morris
>"PC" excludes Macs
Wrong.
Ian Lee
>but the acronym PC is pretty much synonymous with Wintel IBM compatibles and no longer a good term to use when generalizing all personal computers
Again, WRONG.
PC = Personal Computer. It literally does not mean anything else. To say otherwise would be like saying app means something other than application.
Every Mac ever sold is and always has been a PC. Apple can choose not to call them PCs, but that doesn't change the fact that that is what they are.
Ian Martinez
It's Apple themselves who separated Mac and PC in their ads, and now they even try to separate their devices from computers whatsoever, so it's no wonder that people think like that.
Camden Campbell
My experience is that 'computer' is the most understood way to express it if you want to include all desktop/laptop systems regardless of OS.
It seems to convey a feeling of a serious computing device compared to mobile or game devices to most people. People will also think that PC refers to a Windows PC or non-Mac PC due to marketing.
Technically PC includes any general purpose personal computing devices including many smartphones and tablets but no-one uses the shorthand when they mean that.
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