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It's not a personal computer? That's what the PC acronym means. You make no sense. Please elaborate.
You're correct, but somehow PC became a term for a windows, or non-mac computers. Probably because of all the advertising apple did to set Macs apart from other computers.
Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)
Initialism of personal computer.
A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, numbers 27-39, page 28: “For some of the imaging we do,” says Richard Miner, research manager at the University of Lowell's Center for Productivity Enhancement, “we are using both the Amiga and the PC [with the bridge card]. […]
2006, Sonia Weiss, Streetwise Selling On Ebay, →ISBN, page 89: In general, the prices for PC and Mac laptops can be competitive, […]
2010, Ann Raimes, Maria Jerskey, Keys for Writers, →ISBN, page 297: Versions of Word for PC and Mac It is not unusual to find both Mac and PC computers in college computer laboratories, so you may need to become familiar with both Word for PCs and Word for Mac.
I don't know why you allow Apple corporate marketing to ~~fucking dominate~~ poison your ~~pathetic~~ intelligent mind with the idea of what the definition of the acronym is supposed to be, because Wikipedia includes Apple/Macintosh systems in its definition.