[iBook] Re: Apple Announces Intel MacBook Pro

Cameron Miller cameron at grumpyfish.com
Thu Jan 12 15:03:28 PST 2006


Who the heck cares what it's called as long as it does the job? They 
could call it "CrapBook" as far as I'm concerned and I'd still get 
one - as long as it still does everything I need it to do with a 
minimum of fuss....

Cameron.




>I'm excited about the new MacBook, but not the name. "MacBook" doesn't
>seem to roll off the tongue like PowerBook does (did?) People have
>told me that it was renamed out of respect for the PowerBooks, but I
>have trouble seeing it that way. The PowerBook name has been in the
>family for 16 years now, since October 1991 with the original
>PowerBook 100. Since then, it has been on every portable (save the
>beloved iBook) up until now. That includes the transition from 68k to
>PPC, so why not PPC to x86?
>
>First the Happy Mac on bootup, then the PowerPC chip, now the
>PowerBook name ... what will become of it all? (^;
>
>I sincerely hope they do not rename the iBook. If it becomes the
>"iMacBook" I'm going to throw myself off a bridge!
>
>Yours in sarcasm,
>_nickm
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