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The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where's-my-compaq dept.

theodp writes "As the IBM PC turns 25, the editors of PC World present their list of The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time (IBM & others) and the rationale behind their picks. What, no IMSAI 8080?" And my favorite compaq luggable is missing too. Clearly this subjective and arbitrary list is subjective and arbitrary!

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  1. Re:One of many "missing" by Dun+Malg · · Score: 0, Troll
    I know everybody is going to complain that their personal favorite is missing, but I can't believe that NeXT isn't on the list. I think it was one of the most influential systems of the last twenty years. In addition to all the innovations with graphics, removable storage, onboard DSP, drag and drop e-mail attachments, object-oriented framework, etc., the first web browser was developed on a NeXT.
    Yeah, because NeXT took the world by storm, driving both Apple and IBM to bankruptcy in a matter of months. So popular did NeXT machines become that Microsoft quit the software business and started making beanbag chairs and pet rocks, because everybody who was anybody cast aside their PCs and Macs and went NeXT.

    See, if we go by the benchmark of "OS features", then we're stuck considering all kinds of underperforming and/or ill-marketed dogs that knew a couple neat tricks, like the Xerox Altair. Of course, this list is so ridiculous (has some 2006 Toshiba no one's heard of, but omits the C-64?) that it doesn't actually matter.
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  2. It finally makes sense by commodoresloat · · Score: 0, Troll

    I always wondered why the Mac was considered the "gay" computer.

  3. Error! by OldCrasher · · Score: 0, Troll

    This a preposterously technically flawed list. Before the IBM PC came out all "PC's" were actually called Micro Computers (shortened to the character mu followed by a p). Therefore, no Apples. Amiga's, Atari's, Sinclair's, or other makes, unless emulating the IBM, were ever strictly PC's. The term Personal Computer just didn't exist prior to IBMs release of that god awful expensive piece of junk.

  4. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not by definition, by designation. The OP is correct. PCs were and are all descendents of the original IMB PC and compatibles. Before that, these machines were called microcomputers. They are not PCs.