nickname for new powerbooks

[chibianh]

I've already seen the new powerbooks being refered to as Albooks. Personally, I think it's dumb and corny. The Tibooks sounded cool, but not this.

I suggest we call it the Lumibook (pronounced loo-mee book). Why? It's made of aLUMInum and the keyboard ilLUMInates. What do you guys think?

I'd hate for these cool new powerbooks to be labeled something corny. I know you do, too.

[sturm375]

Since they are already using this for the "Extreme Airport" technology, why not for the TiPB.

PowerBook Extreme
Extreme PB

How About the fast food style:

PB [Super Sized / King Sized / Biggie Sized]:D

[MrMacMan]

Nah, I'm gonna refer to it as:

Mini-PB

(see Apple ad) :p

It is almost- full function and from the pics looks nice enough, I'm gonna call my apple store and see when they will get them in. :)

[scem0]

And you thought Albook was corny? Im sorry, but Lumibook
is waaaaaaaaaay cornier. But you are correct when you
say that they need a new name. how about. ltibook for
the 'little' tibook, and Btibook for the 'big' tibook? Just
simple, and short.

[Over Achiever]

I used to call it the Alumbooks, but I think

Alubook

has a better ring to it.

[MasterX (OSiX)]

I'm personally going back to PBG4: PB12" and PB17". Feel free to use DuoG4 (12") and cinemaBook (17") though

[medea]

hmmm, I'd say mini-book or miniPB and possibly cine-book or CinePB....or 17"PB.
What is Apple refering to it as?

[mymemory]

I'm gonna call them the "small" one, the "regular" one and the "big" one. That is it.

[mac15]

this is how it should,before they were tibooks

So we should have small Albooks and big Albooks. Albooks sounds great to me

[pantagruel]

Originally posted by mac15
this is how it should,before they were tibooks

So we should have small Albooks and big Albooks. Albooks sounds great to me
maybe if your name was Al it would. lol.
you guys are looking in the wrong direction, before the Tibooks they didnt call the powerbooks nicknames based on the material they were made from, and aluminum isnt really as catchy so they would give it a whole new name probably.
I'm not very creative though so I don't know what. something to do with cinema sounds good though for the 17" one.

[BigJayhawk]

I like Powerbook Extreme for the 17"

[Sun Baked]

The aluminum sort of reminds me of a

BeerBook

[sparkleytone]

the SuperBook is probably the best name I have seen. And it applies to all three products. For the SuperDrive capability of course. I think I'll start calling it that.

[szark]

I don't think we need a standard nickname -- some people don't even know what TiBook means...

That said, I like MiniBook/CineBook (CBook?).

How about:

XBook (Extreme Book) -- sounds a lot like xBox though

DBook (DDR Book)

PBX/PBEx (PowerBook Extreme)

edit: SuperBook sounds good to me too.

[Sun Baked]

Just think the Apple Discussion area is just calling them

PowerBook 12/17

But where are the usual internal names lately?

[job]

12"

15"

17"

Not original. Just short. Simple. And sweet.

[Rajj]

How about:
Ultra PowerBook X for the12? UPBX
PowerBook X for the 17? PBX

[MasterX (OSiX)]

OK here's some more:

17" PowerBook: "Bluekeys"

12" PowerBook: "Shortbook" "MiniMe" "booklet" or simply "PB12"

[mcrain]

The big one is a "Giant half chicken, half squirrel."

The little one is TIMMY!

Libalow libalow!

[HasanDaddy]

17"?

BIG-ASS BOOK

[rainman::|:|]

Originally posted by szark
That said, I like MiniBook/CineBook (CBook?).


All the other names here kind of suck (no offense), but this is great... i vote for this one :)

pnw

[iGod]

Well...Aluminum in the rest of the world is called AluminIUM.

So how about the "Minium" for the 12" Powerbook
and the "Maxium" for the 17" Powerbook.

I think that's sort of catchy and cool, eh?

[medea]

Originally posted by paulwhannel


All the other names here kind of suck (no offense), but this is great... i vote for this one :)

pnw
Hey now, I said it first....;)

[szark]

Found this in another thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=219044#post219044) (posted by NHMac):

Big Al

I think Al Jr. is better than Mini Al though...

[Les Kern]

PB-X

[scem0]

After looking through these, I am thinking

PB12
tiBooks (regular ones)
PB17

I think you can figure out which one is which on the PB12 and the
PB 17. If you can't then...... Seek help immediately. ;)

[G4scott]

I think miniBook would work for the 12" one, but I'll probably just call it the 12" PowerBook G4, and for the 17" one- "ReallyBigMotherF*ckinScreenedBook", "PhatBook" (although it's very thin...), aweBook, wowBook, OMGBook, or wideBook (or even wiBook, since they're the most wireless PowerBooks ever made...)

Now that I think of it, WiBook seems to fit them quite well, and it has that 'i' ring, like iBook and TiBook...

[Chaszmyr]

I agree that AluBook sounds best

[G4scott]

Too many syllables for my taste. Even then, you'd have to classify the size (12" or 17"), so you might as well say PowerBook...

[rainman::|:|]

Sometimes these things don't get specific names until a revision comes out, making it necessary... I'll bet people just go by 12" and 17" until Apple does something to them (speedbump or something) and then a code name surfaces...

:)
pnw

[ChicagoMac]

Originally posted by mcrain
The big one is a "Giant half chicken, half squirrel."

The little one is TIMMY!

Libalow libalow!


Maybe I missed something, but what are you talking about!?!? It sounds like an order at a Tenessee Boston Market.

Superbook sounds good to me. Good idea Sparklytone!

[scem0]

Superbook would be good, but it is too long. That is why I think
the best candidate is PB12 or ti12, and PB17 or ti17.

[moby1]

I'd call the 17" "Enterprise", after the aircraft carrier. "Nimitz" would work too.

:eek:

[painimies]

Some people are already calling the 12" one a "Mini Al", and the 17" "Big Al"...When they start making iPods out of aluminium, I'm thinking: "Weird Al"...

[agreenster]

Originally posted by moby1
I'd call the 17" "Enterprise", after the aircraft carrier. "Nimitz" would work too.

:eek:
Enterprise?

Geez, how nerdy do you WANT the Mac community to sound?

Just Powerbook is fine for me, though I do like Mini Al and Big Al.

[cleo]

I'm calling my 12" BabyBook, since she's going to be so small and cute (and expensive, so I'll have to wait 9 months to actually see her :D)

[agreenster]

Originally posted by cleo
I'm calling my 12" BabyBook, since she's going to be so small and cute (and expensive, so I'll have to wait 9 months to actually see her :D)

HILARIOUS!

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by chibianh
I've already seen the new powerbooks being refered to as Albooks. Personally, I think it's dumb and corny. The Tibooks sounded cool, but not this.

I suggest we call it the Lumibook (pronounced loo-mee book). Why? It's made of aLUMInum and the keyboard ilLUMInates. What do you guys think?

I'd hate for these cool new powerbooks to be labeled something corny. I know you do, too.

albook sounds like something that al left behind at the horse feed store near where i live

lumibook sounds too long as does powerbook

ibook and tibook have a swift ring to it

i still see them all as tibooks...in three sizes even though only one of those three powerbooks is actually made out of titanium

[D*I*S_Frontman]

CineBook would be ok if the aspect ratios for the 15" & 17" weren't the same.

Does anyone know the Apple internal codename (Pismo/Lombard/Wallstreet etc) for the 17"? That might be a possibility...

We could call it the "G4 FlapJack" because it is the size and (at full CPU usage) probably the surface temp of a pancake griddle when you turn it over. In fact, rather than anodizing the surface, perhaps a nice coat of Teflon...!

Other ideas:

The "Billboard"--similar scale and aspect ratio

The "Dakota"--what else says "huge and flat" better?

The "Other Woman"--how many relationships will hit the rocks when people start ordering these things @ $3,300 base? And how many hours will be spent drooling in front of its gorgeous display once they arrive?

The "Big Score"--the name every would-be laptop thief will know it by.

The "White Knuckler"--referring to both the amazing user experience of operating such a superb device--and to the tightness of the grasps owners must clutch them with to avoid them becoming "The Big Score" (see above).

The "PipeDream"--what poorer Mac users will refer to it as (myself included, at least for now...)

[szark]

Originally posted by D*I*S_Frontman
CineBook would be ok if the aspect ratios for the 15" & 17" weren't the same.

They aren't:

15" - Semi-Widescreen - 3:2 aspect ratio
17" - Full Widescreen - 16:10 aspect ratio

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by cleo
I'm calling my 12" BabyBook, since she's going to be so small and cute (and expensive, so I'll have to wait 9 months to actually see her :D)

omg, cleo

your avatar is getting sexier by the minute

;) :D