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Real C&D here.

The thing that throws it off is the fact that it came from "Apple Legal", they usually come from a third party representing Apple.

Yeah, and you can look at the "Legal Threats" section of The Pirate Bay and there a few Apple ones there, too.
 
fake.....

Ditto here, but it looks fake anyway.

well it does but does anyone think that apple is more likely to put the black bezel on the MB to keep it inline with the imac it seem to make more sence and that would bring back the same effect as white for lower end aand aluminium for pro machines well i think it makes more sence...
 
Yeah, why don't they have the Leopard desktop? But this makes sense in terms of a design change from Apple.

I was going to say exactly that. It's an obvious hoax as they would have the leopard background compared to the iMac and such boxes shipped with the blue one as pictured..
 
<sigh>
You misspelled 'Lieutenant'
You misspelled your phonetic attempt at 'Leftenent'

Aluminium is the correct spelling of the element. Most metals are that way - chromium, sodium, titanium, americium, uranium, plutonium, and so forth. There are some exceptions (platinum), and inconsistency in the latin names (plumbium (lead), vs. cuprum (copper)), but al-u-min-ee-um without the 'i' is just the typical American spelling. The rest of the world does it right, with the 'i'.

Actually based on its latin root of Alumina, Aluminum would be the most proper spelling. The original discoverer of aluminum in fact prefered this initially although later agreed to use the aluminium spelling to conform it with strontium, potassium, etc.

And while there are more "ium" than "um" elements, that does not mean the others are "inconsistencies" since many of them existed as named BEFORE other "ium" metals were named. If we go by "there are more of x than y" as determining correctness, I assume that means you are willing to concede that by such logic American spelling and pronunciation is now in fact correct as the population of the U.S. is three times that the COMBINED population of GB, Canada and Australia and I doubt the remaining countries which speak British English as their primary language can make up the difference. Of course really by that logic, whatever the Chinese call something must be the official name, more people speak Chinese than any other language as their native tongue...

However BOTH spellings are considered correct, different countries prefer one to the other, but IUPAC has in fact recognized BOTH as valid. And no, the REST of the world doesn't do it "right" with the extra i, different countries do one or the other.

As for
 
Actually based on its latin root of Alumina, Aluminum would be the most proper spelling. The original discoverer of aluminum in fact prefered this initially although later agreed to use the aluminium spelling to conform it with strontium, potassium, etc.

And while there are more "ium" than "um" elements, that does not mean the others are "inconsistencies" since many of them existed as named BEFORE other "ium" metals were named. If we go by "there are more of x than y" as determining correctness, I assume that means you are willing to concede that by such logic American spelling and pronunciation is now in fact correct as the population of the U.S. is three times that the COMBINED population of GB, Canada and Australia and I doubt the remaining countries which speak British English as their primary language can make up the difference. Of course really by that logic, whatever the Chinese call something must be the official name, more people speak Chinese than any other language as their native tongue...

However BOTH spellings are considered correct, different countries prefer one to the other, but IUPAC has in fact recognized BOTH as valid. And no, the REST of the world doesn't do it "right" with the extra i, different countries do one or the other.

As for

he is right but if you look(http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html) there it is spelled "aluminum" not "aluminium" so i doubt :apple: would change how they spell it?
 
571 comments already!! WTFIGOH?

I really hope Apple do something soon, if only to end this seemingly endless debate.

Rumour breeds speculation. Speculation breeds more speculation, conjecture, argument, posturing, pontification*, more speculation, arguments about the spelling of Aluminium... leading to threats of a Latin word war!...

*Shall I open my Thesaurus?

Please please please Apple, RELEASE THE NEW MACBOOKS AND MACBOOK PROs BEFORE THIS TOPIC EATS US! :confused::cool::rolleyes::);):p:apple:

Just go and watch mememolly for half an hour. I recommend: the internet. It's had over 1.8 Million hits so far, so you're probably already familiar with it. But as an inward look at what we're about... it's a classic imo.

And Molly has a MacBook Pro... so she's one of us.:apple::)
 
The funny thing is that Americans cannot say ALUMINIUM

I have no idea why they call Aluminum instead of Aluminium, which is the international name for that specific metal.

As an American I find this kinda funny too. When I studied in the UK the first time my Prof. said aluminium, I really was confused (even my spell check is confused at the moment). I was familiar with a number of nuances between our versions of English but that was one I'd never known about.
Regardless, we are American and are stubborn as hell.
 
The funny thing is that Americans cannot say ALUMINIUM

I have no idea why they call Aluminum instead of Aluminium, which is the international name for that specific metal.

Actually, another post gave info to the contrary. Aluminum was the standard pronunciation until it was changed to fit with the rest of the "ium" elements by the UK. Now, both pronunciations and spellings are correct.

It's actually the UK that wants to change things to fit their own game, as is usually the case. :D

...we are American and are stubborn as hell.

Amen to that.
 
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