<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Matt Gregory wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I don't know anything about Apple's past naming conventions and I agree that if the "Power" part of the name coincided with fact it contained a PowerPC chip (although so do iBooks and iMacs, but no "Power" there...) that the renaming was in order. I just think the name "MacBook" sounds a little lame. Quite honestly that is the first thing I noticed when I hit <A href="http://apple.com">apple.com</A> to check out the news and I'm sure it affected how I received the information after that. I'm happy with my decision to buy my 1.67 G4 last year ... I'm not yet convinced I didn't get more for my money. <BR><BR>matt.<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Matt,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In the days before the PowerPC there were Powerbooks.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Peter Apockotos</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.apockotos.com">http://www.apockotos.com</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.macmariner">http://www.macmariner</A>,com</DIV></BODY></HTML>