Macintosh vs. IBM The IBM and Macintosh computers have been in competition with each other for years, and each of them have their strong points. They both had their own ideas about where they should go in the personal computer market. They also had many developments, which propelled themselves over the other. It all started when Thomas John Watson became president of Computing Tabulating Recording in 1914, and in 1924 he renamed it to International Business Machines …showed first 75 words of 3122 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3122 total…IBM as well. Motorola as its chip manufacturer, caused them to be one step behind the Intel based IBM-compatibles. Not licensing out its software so that third parties could create software for it, was also a down fall for it. Now, that the IBM-compatible computer has a strong support it is very unlikely that Apple will be able to bring back a large user group for its personal computer, even though their computers are faster.