Does The Macintosh Have A Split Personality?
Jul 21st, 2010 | By Gary Klingsheim | Category: AppleIn the early days of personal computers, the Macintosh with its revolutionary point-and-click, desktop metaphor and Graphical User Interface (GUI) was marketed as the easy-to-use alternative to the blinking cursor of the PC’s Command Line Interface (CLI). Because of a lack of programs (and programmers), the Mac was considered underpowered, overpriced and, frankly, a lot less macho than the beige boxes that, in short order, fell under the sway of two main chipmakers, Intel and AMD.