Nicole J Brown
English 102
Martin Arnold
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The Byte of the Forbidden Fruit

The bite of computation and processing has taking the world as we know to another dimension, From computers original content of meaning someone who can process and compute, to now meaning an electronic mechanism that can do it all. This device in itself has become more technical, profitable, marketable and even more personable. The device comes in all shapes and fashions, desktops, laptops, tablets, netbooks, your newer phone models are called "smartphones" now because it carries on as a mini computing device, and it can do just about as much as your normal computer can. These many devices now replace the functions once done manually by human effort. Then there is Apple Inc., it is in a class of it's own. At face value the ordinary CPU we now call PC's and the Apple Macintosh seem similar in structure, however the Apple Macintosh product rules supreme. Its build, its ability and its market value could never be coined similar to a personal computer. Let's talk about the build of the personal computer; it has more than one manufacturing brand that sells this device. You have Toshiba, Dell, Hewitt Packard, Acer, Gateway, and Samsung just to name a few. Each of these companies have there own way of custom building these devices. Take for instance, the device the laptop. The average laptop weighs about 5.48lbs give or take, depending on the manufacturing of the brand. Then there is Apple Inc. device it is the only manufacture of Macintosh. The average laptop device: MacBook Pro 4.5lbs and the Mac Air are 3lbs now that's a lighter load to carrier. Just because, the Mac is lighter to carry this doesn't siphoned its ability in operation. The PC operating system is created by Microsoft and Windows is the only operating system that can run on a PC. The Mac is the only computer in