 We've probably all experienced those conversations...you know...why use a Mac when everyone chooses differently?...why use computers that everyone sees as so expensive?...Macs will never be as fast or secure as PCs.
Fight The Good Fight is a page of ammunition to anyone that wants to show the people around them just why they should be Thinking Differently. If you have any links you feel should go on this page or links aren't working (sites often reorganise their content), please feel free to get in touch.
New: Ballmer: Vista is ‘a work in progress’ (18/4/08)
New: Macs better than PCs at Vista (17/4/08)
- Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed (9/4/08)
- 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X (14/2/08)
- Apple tops PC Mag satisfaction survey (9/10/07)
- Passing the Torch - Departing PC Magazine Editor says "even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it" (15/8/07)
- Mac OS X Tiger vs. Windows Vista (31/5/07)
- Review: Vista, XP Users Equally At Peril To Viruses, Exploits (29/5/07)
- Apple of Our Eye: Macs Save Money (20/3/07)
- Why Apple's 'consumer' Macs are enterprise-worthy (9/3/2007)
- Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista (8/2/2007)
- Vista's pretty, but it's a shameless Mac OS X imitator (29/1/2007)
- A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection (26/01/2007)
- Mac
OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista (6/1/2007)
- Making
the Switch from PC to Mac (20/12/2006)
- Is
Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X? (22/11/2006)
- Mac
virus author admits coding difficulties (6/11/2006)
- Steve
Jobs named #1 Top 10 greatest IT people (27/10/2006)
- PC
maker fumes at Vista price hike (26/10/2006)
- An Apple for the enterprise? - 22/9/2006
- Windows
5x More Expensive than Mac OS X - 15/8/2006
- Now
I'm a believer. A move to Mac is on, and another straggler joins the
merry band - 15/8/2006
- Comparing
prices: Mac Pro versus PCs - 14/8/06
- Symantec CEO advocates fair play and Macs -
15/5/2006
- Windows Vista (Build 5308/5342) Review Part 5: Where Vista Fails - 19/4/2006
- Windows Is So Slow, but Why? - 27/6/2006
- Why Worms Shun Apple's OSX - 24/10/2005
- Apple Mythology and Desktop Security - 21/4/2005
- Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac? - 2/2/2005
- Security Issues Plague Windows-Based PCs, Impairing Ease of Use - 9/12/2004
- But There's No Software For The Mac, Right? - Mac and Dell prices compared - 4/11/2004
- The world's most secure computing environment - 2/11/2004
- A Month with a Mac: A Die-Hard PC User's Perspective - 8/10/2004
- iMac G5 - PC Magazine Editor rates it 5 out of 5 - 21/9/2004
- Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes - 17/8/2004
- PC World - Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) "Bare Necessities - Operating System" - 2/6/2004
- PC Worlds - iTunes as the "Software Newcomer of the Year" - 2/6/2004
- Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow - 2/6/2004
- Is Bluetooth Better on the Mac? - 26/3/2004
- When Windows won't work, it's time for a Mac - 23/2/2004
- Can Apple Keep the Worms Out? - 5/2/2004
- Your small business alternative - 2/2/2004
- Dual G5 versus Dual Opteron - 15/12/03
- PC Magazine 20th Annual Awards for Technical Excellence [G5 - Best personal computer] - 18/11/2003
- If You're Getting Tired Of Fighting Viruses, Consider a New Mac - 23/10/03
- Macs vs PCs - Sydney Morning Herald - 11/10/03
- Microsoft Windows : Insecure by design - 24/8/03
- All Mac Considered - The Smell Of Fear - 18/7/03
- Benchmark Showdown -- Mac vs. PC - 4/11/01
- Mac OS X versus Windows 2000 in the heavyweight round - 7/6/01
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There's many things that we've all become accustomed to using with our computers, be they Macs or PC. In fact, we take it for granted that what we experience for the first time on any system, may be the first time that it's ever been used. What you may not realise is that in a lot of case, what you see on the machine in front of you, was something Apple did first, something they had the foresight to realise all would want, and in some cases, was [in hindsight] just blindingly obvious that we'd all want to use it. These are things that should be listed as Apple "Firsts"...
- The Apple II was the first personal computer to offer colour graphics [1977]
- VisiCalc, first spreadsheet program, released for the Apple II [1979]
- First PC maker to reach $1 billion in annual sales [1982]
- First personal computer (Apple Lisa) to use a GUI (Graphical User Interface) [1983]
- First personal computer company to use a mouse [1983]
- First personal computer with dynamic memory allocation [1984]
- First computer with API programming support (the Toolbox) and a graphics API (QuickDraw) [1984]
- Built-in LAN networking [1984]
- Built-in sound [1984]
- First personal computer to use 3.5 inch floppies disks that most PC users now use [1984]
- Self-configuring LAN networking [1984]
- Microsoft Word is released on the Mac only (Windows is yet to appear) [1984]
- Microsoft Excel is released on the Mac only (Windows is yet to appear) [1984]
- PostScript printer [1985]
- Built-in SCSI [1985]
- Disability support [1985]
- Aldus PageMaker is released, ushering the concept of desktop publishing [1985]
- Apple was the first to allow use of multiple monitors [1997]
- Microsoft PowerPoint is released 3 years before it will appear on Windows is yet to appear) [1987]
- Address 8 MB RAM [1988]
- Hypercard - objects [1988]
- Optional Unix OS [1988]
- Multitasking [1988]
- 16 million colours [1988]
- First to introduce a superdrive floppy drive that could read and write Mac, DOS, OS/2, and ProDOS floppies [1998]
- Apple invented True Type fonts (Reference) [1990]
- Built-in sound input [1990]
- 32 bit Operating System [1990]
- Built-in file sharing [1990]
- QuickTime - the first standard architecture for dynamic media [1991]
- QuickTime for Windows - first cross-platform dynamic media standard [1992]
- Auto docking portable computer [1992]
- Portable with full I/O [1992]
- First to ship a personal computer with built-in CD-ROM [1992]
- First worldwide language support for an operating system (Worldscript) [1992]
- Apple released the Newton and used the new term "PDA" (Personal Digital Assistant) to describe it [1993]
- First unified telephony and e-mail architecture for a personal computer operating system (PowerTalk and PowerShare) [1993]
- NTSC video input and output [1993]
- First personal computer with built-in TV and CD stereo system (Macintosh TV) [1993]
- Speech recognition [1993]
- Speech synthesis [1993]
- First to provide colour-matching technology built-in to an operating system (ColorSync) [1993]
- The first computer to introduce built-in microphones on its chassis (Colour Classic) [1993]
- 80486/Windows machine inside a Mac [1994]
- RISC microprocessors [1994]
- Apple was the first company to release a laptop with a trackpad instead of a trackball or nubby [1994]
- First panoramic VR technology for personal computers (QuickTime VR) [1994]
- Invented Firewire technology for connection video cameras to computers for easy video editing (reference) [1995]
- 2nd generation RISC [1995]
- Delivered desktop Java applications [1996]
- First to ship a personal computer *without* a Floppy Drive [1998]
- First computer manufacturer to use solely USB as a means of connecting peripherals, with no serial, ADB or SCSI ports [1998]
- First portable computer with wireless networking capability built in [AirPort] [1999]
- First computer maker to bundle an optical mouse with every computer sold [2000]
- First monitor manufacturer to drop CRT displays and produce only flat panel monitors [2001]
- First company to produce a 64-bit personal computer [2003]
Check out Apple-history.com for lots more Apple historical information
Many thanks to forum members who have continued to discuss this issue and help NZMac.com build up this list. Please let us know of any Apple "First" that you feel should be listed by contacting NZMac.com via this page
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