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If Steve Jobs were Bill Gates' valet, or in someother parallel existence wherein he'd never founded Apple, and there were no Macs, what would you use?
I think I'd settle unhappily for a Sony VAIO.
The only other computer with the word "Book" in it that I know of is the Panosonic Toughbook but the similarities stop right there. Have you seen this? It is a joke: computer hardware in a hardcase for a set of screwdrivers. Sure it could take a whippin' but is it worth it?
Or maybe if Steve Jobs hadn't founded Apple, someone else would've had to.
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A Thinkpad which is what I use at work.
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My other computer is a Sun Blade, runs Solaris 10 on a 64-bit UltraSparc II cpu 
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the new thinkpad z series
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Apple an innovator in a world of Immitators.
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...my toes. Unless I was going to go MP, then I'd go with my fingers AND toes. I imagine thats not far from the truth. Im a Mac consultant for a living, with apples all over my house, but if there were no macs, I probably wouldn't be much of a computer person at all. Maybe I'd have an old PC tower lying around, possibly running linux. I can't imagine i'd be 'into' windows like im into macs.
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Wrong answer, please try again
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Wozniak was the computer guy - Jobs was the marketing guy - LET'S NOT FORGET WOZNIAK
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Visit us on the web @ strangedogs.com for FREE SPEECH and Video Card Flashing.
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If Macs had never been invented, I'd use whatever incarnation of the Atari ST was present (on the basis that the ST would still be manufactured if the Mac hadn't ousted it).
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Mac Elite
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Yeah I'd be using the Atari ST as well.
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“Building Better Worlds”
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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Probably a ThinkPad, running either FreeBSD or some flavor of Linux.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Gogarty
If Steve Jobs were Bill Gates' valet, or in someother parallel existence wherein he'd never founded Apple, and there were no Macs, what would you use?
I think I'd settle unhappily for a Sony VAIO.
The only other computer with the word "Book" in it that I know of is the Panosonic Toughbook but the similarities stop right there. Have you seen this? It is a joke: computer hardware in a hardcase for a set of screwdrivers. Sure it could take a whippin' but is it worth it?
Or maybe if Steve Jobs hadn't founded Apple, someone else would've had to.
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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Pobably an small IBM Thinkpad running FreeBSD.
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"'Jelly Hat' sounds silly," I told Prince. "How about something poetic, like 'Raspberry Beret.'"
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OK, I'll be honest... a crappy $399 Dell. If I'm going to the dark side, I might as well completely sell out.
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madra OS - which by now would be on madra OS 10,4,2 and would be the perfect operating system [even if some users complained about it's inability to recognise or generate capital letters].
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A ThindPad with Ubuntu.
A custom desktop with Zeta.
My NeXTcube.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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Just too terrible of a thing to contemplate. Although chance are Woz would have still gone ahead of the project. The question would be if there still would have been Apple? 
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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i'd probably have a sony laptop running some form of linux.
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"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's."
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by Mr. Gogarty
...I think I'd settle unhappily for a Sony VAIO....
aha! - but if apple had never existed, then the idea of including artists and designers in the creation of a computer and its operating system would never have existed. and if that is the case then.... <pooff!> your sony vaio winks out of existence and you are flattened beneath the weight of a suitcase sized laptop bearing the legend "microsoft ultra portable computer"
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Mac Elite
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I'm thinking Kaypro 4. I think my dad still has one collecting dust in storage somewhere.
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Mac Elite
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If amiga was still in business...
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Funny thing is they'd all be running DOS or something similar. I think Xerox would have come out with their UI but nothing like the Macintosh.... and we should all thank Jef Raskin the true father. May he rest in peace. 
And I doubt we would have them to begin with, a Personal Computer was a ridiculous notion in that time. Without Apple spurring on IBM it would never have happened.
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I'd probably be silly enough to get an HP. I hate Sony, and I hate Dell. Perhaps a thinkpad, but if I didn't own an Apple I probably wouldn't be near as computer savy as I am, so I'd probably have an HP higher end, with HP printer, camera and everything, because I'm just weird like that... I like to have all my products by the same people...
I'd like to say that I'd run Be or something like that... but probably I'd just use what everyone else did...
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No clue, none of us really knows since if Apple didn't exist, we don't know where we would be today.
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Mac Elite
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Either an IBM ThinkPad or a Sony VAIO running XP.
It would probably take me 2 days though to configure it exactly the way I want it.
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I'd be using a brand new, l008comster, running l008OS-EX
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IBM intellistaion or something solaris related
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Macintosh Quadra 950, Powermac 6100, iBook dual USB, Powerbook 667 DVI, Powerbook 867 DVI, MacBook Pro early 2011
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Originally Posted by BlueSky
Etch-a-Sketch
I can make an AWESOME stair on an etch-a-sketch. 
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I would be using Nextstep or BeOS.
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I think its safe to say that if there was no apple, there would be no next
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Pencil OS. Its great and all, and fixing a crash is rather simple. Though you do go through a lot of paper.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
A ThindPad with Ubuntu.
Have that on my older T40 right now.
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A hot SGI running IRIX…
oh wait… is SGI who is almost out of the business, not Apple.
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by macaddict0001
If amiga was still in business...
Yes, and if Apple had never been founded the Amiga would have happily settled into the mac's niche and would in all likelihood still be in business. In which case I would be using one right now.
The Amiga 1000 was released in 1985. So I'm pretty sure its OS design was not totally derived from MacOS. So no, we would not all be using MS-DOS 12 today.
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Originally Posted by angelmb
If only IRIX weren't so nasty looking...
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I like chicken
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Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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I'd be using an IBM Delphi Notebook running IBM OE 6.5 (Operating Environment), just like everyone else. Duh.
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Is it not reasonable to anticipate that our understanding of the human mind would be aided greatly by knowing the purpose for which it was designed?
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If I couldn't use a Mac I'd use college-ruled paper and a pencil.
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Since this is in some horrible alternate dimension that I wouldn't be using a Mac, it'd be this:
(Hope hotlink works.)
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Opteron running BSD or Linux.
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The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
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Thinkpad, like I had prior to my Powerbook, no question. And I'd build my own desktop like I do now anyway.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
Probably a ThinkPad, running either FreeBSD or some flavor of Linux.
My thoughts exactly.
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KDE on Ubuntu (or Gentoo) Linux on a Dell Inspiron 700m.
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pb 1440x960 | 1.67, 1.5, 128, 80 | leopard
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Think Pad with custom OS or peraps not.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
Probably a ThinkPad, running either FreeBSD or some flavor of Linux.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner here folks!
I'd do the exact same thing.
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