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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by charlesism on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:29PM (#18360021)
Not the Mac, but the Apple II was. When the PC industry began, Apple was king for a few years. Then Commodore overtook them in the home market, and IBM in the workplace.

I'm not sure what you mean about performance? When I switched, I had the impression PCs were outperforming Macs by a long shot. That must have been within a couple years of the Win95 release. I should probably hedge a bit there because my memory might be off. It was a long time ago.

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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by MBCook on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:36PM (#18360042)
The Apple 2, yes. It wasn’t the cheapest but it was certainly the big player in the US.

Performance: Macs were quite competitive, or even better than PCs for quite a while. It was only later as the Intel juggernaut kept going that Apple started to get steamrolled and had to switch off 68k. They regained the crown for a little while, but even the G3/4/5 were quickly overtaken by Intel.

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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by charlesism on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:43PM (#18360068)
I can't remember much about specs. Actually I can't even remember if I knew enough back then to interpret specs! Maybe i just thought PCs felt faster or something :)
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