Okay, not really. But if you think about, the Mac has a lot of the same qualities as a console.

• It looks neat.
• You can (and will) buy a lot of accessories for it.
• There is a computer in there some where.
• It can play media.
• And the main kicker is: you can’t really change the hardware inside.

Again, not really. There aren’t nearly enough games for the Mac to be considered a console, but you have to wonder if MicroSoft jumped on the standardized computer hardware as a console (oh hai Xbox!) because they were inspired by the Mac.

Consoles have always been pretty single purpose and the hardware reflected that, but with the XBox generation, you started seeing what looked like a standardized, computer gaming platform.

And yes, I’m aware that most of the above is the same for PCs, but the last point is the biggest similarity.