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Weekend Deals and Discounts on PC and Mac

Sure, it's the weekend, but it's just not any weekend--it's Memorial Day Weekend, meaning that the various digital distribution outlets have gone...
Chris Faylor
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Sure, it's the weekend, but it's just not any weekend--it's Memorial Day Weekend, meaning that the various digital distribution outlets have gone all out with their sales.

There are a great many deals to consider, so let's skip right to the chase:

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • razorblade79 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    May 28, 2010 3:12 PM

    cool to see a different OS for pc games so often in the news now.

    I just don't really get the PC == Windows, even Steam does it.

    • PinPalsApu legacy 10 years
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      May 28, 2010 3:28 PM

      It all goes back to the '80s. Apple released the original Macintosh computer while IBM released what they called the "personal computer". They've been separated as such since.

      Oh and Id totally be all over that Splinter Cell pack since I hear Conviction is awesome. But Im not gonna support Ubisoft's DRM practices so theyll be getting no money from me.

      • Kristian Joensen legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        May 28, 2010 5:50 PM

        "Apple released the original Macintosh computer while IBM released what they called the "personal computer""

        I have always understood the difference between PC and Mac as being architecture based with PC using the X86 architecture and the Mac not using it. But that no longer applies, by that definition the new Intel Mac's ARE PC's. By a broader definition of PC's as simply being what the acronym literally means, namely Personal Computers all Mac's both the new Intel Mac's and the older ones would qualify.

        The only way you can exclude the Intel Mac's would be by defining "PC" as a personal computer based on the X86 architecture AND running an MS OS(Although boot camp complicates even that with the new Macs).

        But that is the way most people including the media are defining things. A perfectly accurate way of rephrasing the title of this article would have been "Weekend Deals and Discounts on Windows and Mac OS". But in the end it is all semantics.

        • Blazer1982 legacy 10 years
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          May 28, 2010 5:57 PM

          Its because of lineage that pc = windows. The pc was always open architecture, where as anything Apple makes has always been closed, When everything moves to the cloud then these definitions will be irrelevant/

          • Rape.Farm legacy 10 years
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            May 29, 2010 4:27 AM

            Blazer has pointed out the main difference. People have been able to customize and build their own PCs since the beginning, whereas Apple only briefly allowed other companies to make parts for their computers before changing their minds. Even mainstream video card companies making Mac versions is a fairly recent thing.

        • sasquatchxing legacy 10 years
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          May 28, 2010 6:00 PM

          A lot of it is down to the general public also calls stuff by the most recognized name. Most people won't ask for a facial tissue they will ask for a kleenex or an adhesive bandage it's a band-aid. Over time since windows was the dominate OS (and only OS out there in the eyes of most of the general populous, and you know this is true all you mac and linux/unix trolls that are going to jump on me) it just got associated with personal computers and that is why it stuck. Apple didn't help with the i'm a Mac/ PC commercials. but thats just what the general public knows so thats what sticks and it is hard to change the rule of the mob.

          • razorblade79 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            May 29, 2010 2:03 AM

            you guys are all right with your analyses but these are Valve and Shacknews I am talking about.

            • Johnnsen legacy 10 years
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              May 29, 2010 2:20 AM

              Its probably the easiest to say so that anyone understands it.

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