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Mac (Computer)

The article currently states that Mac may mean Mac OS, an operating system that runs on Apple Macintosh computers, and its newest version Mac OS X -- I question whether just Mac ever refers to the OS software. Just the link to the line of computers (Macintosh) should be sufficient. --Himasaram 10:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Mac does refer to software in reference to the computing experience, to compatibility, and at least adjectivally, to the OS software itself. Software may indicate its compatibility with Mac OS X with a logo which reads simply, "Mac". [1] ~ RVJ 16:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, Mac supplanted Macintosh for the naming of new hardware by 1999. The Power Macintosh professional desktops were the last computers to lose the Macintosh moniker with the Power Mac G4 introduction. So "Mac" is no longer an abbreviation or colloquialism, it is both the popular and official name. In reference to current Apple products, "Macintosh" is all but expunged from use on Apple's site, notably excepting the Macintosh Product Guide, which is treated as an ongoing periodical's name. Try a search.[2]

The product name which Mac replaced represented a computer with hardware and OS provided as one. Understandably there remains some confusion as to what a Mac is even now that the lines between Apple hardware and OS software are just slightly blurred. ~ RVJ 16:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

MAC vs Mac

The lead line currently says "Mac or MAC may refer to:", yet right before it mentions that MAC is a separate disambig page. IMHO, both pages are long enough that the MAC portions of the page should be moved over to MAC, and the intro line should only say "Mac may refer to:". (I know editors tend to add entries to the wrong page, but both pages pretty long, so it would be good if they could be kept separate). --Interiot 23:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

• Support. I'll clean some of it up myself. Each disambig page should reference the other disambig page, but they shouldn't list each other's articles. ~ RVJ 16:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

McDonalds?

People where i live say McDonalds as Mac a lot. Maybe should this be added? --Kai81123 12:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Well...this isn't Urban Dictionary. So, I mention only incidentally that out of the 31 definitions submitted there for "Mac", none of them reference McDonald's. ~ RVJ 16:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Mac is more used for Macintosh

Most people say Mac as meaning the "Mac" computer. Not many people say "Mac" to say Monkey Access Card. It should go straight to the Macintosh page then have just a link to the disambiguation page on the Macintosh Article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas Gilling (talk • contribs) 20:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Well off the top of my head, I can think of searching for McIntosh_(apple), MAC address, and Military Airlift Command. given the long list in this disambig page, I think there are enough other things that people could be looking for to justify having Mac go here.--Terrillja _talk 18:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect removals of interlanguage links

A bot (User:JAnDbot) and its owner have recently been removing interwiki links for, among others, the German and Italian versions of this page, apparently by reason of those pages being titled "MAC", rather than "Mac". However, both in those wikis and in the English one, there is a single, joint disambiguation page for all "MAC" and "Mac" entries; only the chosen page title differs. In particular de:Mac, is just a redirect to de:MAC, exactly like en:MAC is a redirect to en:Mac on this side. There is thus no legitimate reason to remove an interwiki link from en:Mac to de:MAC or vice versa: the pages cover exactly the same subject.

Please either fix the bot, or tell it to ignore pages like "Mac"/"MAC" if getting them right is too hard. Right now, the bot's behavior is purely destructive – it's violating both the letter and the spirit of the principles for interlanguage links. Thanks, Hqb (talk) 15:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Mac mDNSresponder

I FOUND THE mDNSResponder! This is the path: /(main computer folder)/(main disk)/private/var/run/mDNSResponder — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.193.168.124 (talk) 20:31, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Italicisation

User:Fyrael: why should the series names be italicised? Ollieinc (talk) 04:53, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

The manual of style doesn't seem to make specific mention of book series, but every other novel series appears to use italics (see The Wheel of Time and A Song of Ice and Fire for example). Even the articles for CHERUB and Henderson's Boys use the italics, although they seem to be very inconsistent within those articles. They should really be fixed up. -- Fyrael (talk) 17:12, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Ok. There really needs to be a standardisation - with the book infobox, for example, the series parameter doesn't italicise what is in that parameter, but book series infobox italicises the title of the article and the title parameter. Where should I bring this up? Ollieinc (talk) 08:43, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

I think Template_talk:Infobox_book would probably be the best place to bring it up. They may just say that the series parameter can be manually italicized though. Or do you mean you want to start a discussion about italicizing series throughout the wiki? That one I wouldn't know how to start. -- Fyrael (talk) 18:21, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Ok, well it looks like the manual of style actually does say something about this. Apparently "Media franchises (including a trilogy or other series of novels or films)" are not supposed to be italicized, although again that does not seem to be adhered to by editors. It has been mentioned a few times on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Titles, but no real discussion ever seems to take place. I may try to start a new discussion there. -- Fyrael (talk) 19:45, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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