{"id":2313,"date":"2003-12-08T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:08:46","slug":"mac-vs-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/12\/08\/mac-vs-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac vs PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    I found the the first article<\/a> in John Papola’s new blog to be a well-written and thoughtful comparison of Apple’s \u201cvertical\u201d operational structure (writing an OS that works with a select core of hardware) with Windows’ \u201chorizontal\u201d one (writing an OS that has to handle all manner of combinations of hardware). It’s a more sober look than the usual cultish rantings one encounters in this debate.
    I also found it interesting how the article points out Microsoft might be tiring of its role. Taking a page from Apple’s book, MS’s 2006 prototype will be a preassembled computer — the Athens — which also bears a striking resemblance (both externally and feature-wise) to an iMac. And Longhorn, MS’s next Windows incarnation, reportedly bears a similarity to the look of Mac’s OS X.
<\/div>The Apple iMac (left) and the MS Athens<\/small><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I found the the first article in John Papola’s new blog to be a well-written and thoughtful comparison of Apple’s \u201cvertical\u201d operational structure (writing an OS that works with a select core of hardware) with Windows’ \u201chorizontal\u201d one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}