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2006 MacBook It still sort of works but the plastic is all broken off. I should probably throw it away, it was beautiful though.

Loved my CrackBook. The black matte finish was pretty great. Used it for years—everything from doing .net dev in a VM, getting into Django, to shipping an iPhone game in the early days.

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I am not asking all the names but who are those people behind the various macs?

> who are those people behind the various macs?

If you scroll past the video to the timeline, then click on any of the sections, it'll expand and say who the person is and what they did.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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For people who don't know it yet:

"Folklore.org: Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it"

http://www.folklore.org/

I don't own a single Apple device, but I still find the stories fascinating. It makes me wish I could've worked with those engineers.

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How come people talk about 30 years of Mac but no one talks about 25+ years of Windows or Linux for that matter. I saw numerous blog posts of parroting this advertisement, even in my morning daily commute news paper.

Maybe its PR (as in they got paid to publish news about this)

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How come people talk about 30 years of Mac but no one talks about 25+ years of Windows or Linux for that matter. I saw numerous blog posts of parroting this advertisement, even in my morning daily commute news paper.

Linux: I think because it's less of a 'concrete' thing (e.g. so many distros, very steady 'word of mouth' growth rather than a big launch)

Windows: People just don't have the same affection for Windows: it tends to be something that's used, grudgingly, often for work, rather than something that people are genuinely pleased by. I'm sure people will disagree, of course, that's just a big generalisation. Also, since Windows is available on a whole range of hardware, it suffers (in this specific regard) from the same fragmentation as Linux: there's isn't so much one single thing to get attached to.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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2006 MacBook It still sort of works but the plastic is all broken off. I should probably throw it away, it was beautiful though.

Older macs were more robust. I think this is one reason of the failure of apple against microsoft: when you have a computer that enables you to do your stuff without problems or failures, you do not need to replace it by a new one. Microsoft has understood how to earn a lot more money by selling half broken products that people want to replace by better ones. Maybe, this was not intentional. btw, this post is risky f…

Microsoft isn't responsible for terrible OEMs.
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