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When typing a question containing MAC, there should be question for the user whether he/she meant Mac/Macintosh. E.g. this question: how to connect Macintosh on LAN had MAC all over the place before it was corrected to Macintosh.

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    See this awesome feature request on MSO: A real solution to ambiguous tags
    – slhck
    Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 13:11
  • Solution: Use the tag mac-address for MAC-related questions, and imac for Macintosh hardware questions (software should all be under osx). Then again, just one man's opinion, as there's thousands of questions already tagged mac...
    – Breakthrough
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 16:36
  • The issue isn't how a well informed poster to distinguish between these, but how to make uninformed posters do that.
    – lupincho
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 19:53
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    @Breakthrough iMac is a specific line of all-in-one desktop computers, positioned between Mac mini and Mac Pro. mac is the general tag for Apple-branded computers.
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Commented May 2, 2012 at 12:41

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