Part 1: Looking at the Mac
Editors' Poll: What Makes a Mac a Mac?
CB: The Great Cloning Experiment of the late 1990s demonstrated that a Mac is more than a hunk of plastic, wires, and circuits stamped with an Apple logo. What made these beige boxes Macs was the Mac OS. Although the clones are gone and Apple has gussied up its designs, what continues to make a Mac a Mac is an operating system that makes sense from the tips of its toes to the top of its pointy little head. The Mac OS has a consistency of design and ease of use that allows people to concentrate on the work they're doing with the computer rather than on the computer itself.
DM: Two qualities mark the Mac platform: its deep integration of hardware and operating system and its tradition ...
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