Talk:Mac (computer)

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| https://www.macworld.com/article/2216095/40-years-mac-immortal.html

| https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-secret-40-year-old-mac-still-rules/

| https://www.theverge.com/24047857/macintosh-40th-anniversary-apple-imac-powerbook-macbook-studio-pro-air

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Neglect of Pro Users for iMac

The iMac still has yet to get a pro version.

23emr (talk) 14:43, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Skipping redirects

I'm currently changing all links to Macintosh to instead point to Mac (computer).

Rationale:

the {{tp|annual readership}} for Mac (computer) is roughly 20% lower than Macintosh had, before the move.
when people type "Mac", this page now ranks much lower than it used to before the Oct '22 move. The search algorithm doesn't take into account redirects, and since everything linked to Macintosh, after the move, Mac (computer) incorrectly has much lower weight in the search rankings.

I'm hoping that directly linking to the article will bump it up in the list, back to where it used to be just months ago. I don't believe this is an {{tl|R with possibilities}}, so it seems fine to replace. DFlhb (talk) 14:09, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

:Be careful of context here. The computers were {{tq|known as Macintosh until 1999}}. We should not be changing Macintosh to Mac for articles clearly talking about older computers. Wikipedia is for readers, please don't make content changes just to make readership counters work better. ~Kvng (talk) 14:03, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

::I did try to maintain the chronology, although I did mistakenly use '97 as the cutoff rather than '99 (a mistake I only realized later). I'm also sure to have made a few mistakes, so I kept a list of all modified articles in a text file, so I can double-check them this week. DFlhb (talk) 14:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

:::Done double-checking (earlier this week, but I forgot to post it here). DFlhb (talk) 07:26, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hello! This is to let editors know that :File:Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer, January 1984, by Bernard Gotfryd - edited.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 24, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-01-24. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 22:33, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Reinstated copyedits

{{u|Shawn Teller}}, you've [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mac_%28computer%29&diff=1148185024&oldid=1148109912&diffmode=source reinstated] copyedits that I had [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mac_(computer)&action=history previously reverted], so I'll explain my first revert:

the first Macintosh was not {{tq|first released}} in 1984; it was only released once, in 1984
{{tq|initially being successful at first}} is clunkier than {{tq| initial success}}, and not grammatically correct
{{tq|brought Steve Jobs back to Apple to invigorate it}} (bolded insertion) — this speculates on the reasons Jobs was brought to Apple, in a way that is not present in sources (and whose motivations are we describing? Amelio's?)

Please do not reinstate disputed edits like this; see WP:BRD. DFlhb (talk) 16:34, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, that comment about the transition being ongoing is outdated now

Considering it is complete Serouj2000 (talk) 20:55, 6 June 2023 (UTC)