A computer made by AppleCorporation and well known for its ease of use. They say this is a computer everyone is passionate about - either haters or lovers.

Haters dislike it for its Proprietary Hardware and Software. The previous line of its operating system, MacOS up to version 9, led to a backronym for MACINTOSH being coined as "Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs." One of its variations is named the Emac - that's just wrong. Not least among the reasons that it annoys haters is the demeanour of MacFanatics.

A lot of old issues were largely improved recently by Apple discarding the old MacOS code base and using a variant of FreeBSD called Darwin as the basis for MacOSX. So while you may be going spare with a one button mouse you can open a terminal and use the shell just like under Unix. All your old favourite commands are there, cat, ls, cd, tail, sed, perl, etc - it's like a $HOME away from $HOME.

Compare WinTel.