[iBook] Re: Apple Announces Intel MacBook Pro

[Cameron Miller]

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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