Yeah it’s a common expression because great apes are well known to mimic things they see, presumably without understanding the reasons why. It fits here.
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Dell Copies iPhone 'Pro', 'Pro Max' Naming Strategy for New PC Lineup
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In the case of Dell, it'll be:
Pro - made of the first pickings from the Shenzhen scrap yard they get their parts from.
Pro Max - made of the above but filtered for larger bits of scrap.
Pro - made of the first pickings from the Shenzhen scrap yard they get their parts from.
Pro Max - made of the above but filtered for larger bits of scrap.
Steve Jobs would literally roll over in his grave.
No reason to do this anyway. As we can see they copy whatever they want. Not sure anyone can or wants to follow Apple as far down the integration rabbit hole as Apple goes.
Easier for who? The “boomer parents” I know are very familiar with the Dell XPS and Inspiron lines.
If Samsung wasn't sued for the Samsung Watch Ultra, Dell has nothing to worry about.
Over forty years (Founded by Michael Dell in 1984) to reach this conclusion:
While the entire pharmaceutical industry seems hell-bent on inventing the most complicated names, difficult to pronounce - especially when multilingual issues are taken into account, difficult to spell, and about 95% lacking any obvious meaning.
(I offer dapagliflozin - possibly branded Forxiga - as an example. As well as the many ways they repeatedly use the same brand name for very different products.)
I point this out because of the irony that if you get a computer name wrong, it has little consequence. Maybe takes slightly longer to identify something. But get a medicine name wrong and you can suffer severely.
Over forty years (founded by Michael Dell in 1984) to reach this conclusion!
While the entire pharmaceutical industry seems hell-bent on inventing the most complicated names, difficult to pronounce - especially when multilingual issues are taken into account, difficult to spell, and about 95% lacking any obvious meaning.
(I offer dapagliflozin - possibly branded Forxiga - as an example. As well as the many ways they repeatedly use the same brand name for very different products.)
I point this out because of the irony that if you get a computer name wrong, it has little consequence. Maybe takes slightly longer to identify something. But get a medicine name wrong and you can suffer severely.
I hope they didn't pay a consultancy for this because this is just a rehash of car naming schemes: good, better, best models, each with good, better, best trim levels.
The difficulty comes when putting together the model and trim. How will the average punter know whether Dell Pro Premium is better/worse than Dell Pro Max Plus. Or Dell Premium vs Dell Pro???
The difficulty comes when putting together the model and trim. How will the average punter know whether Dell Pro Premium is better/worse than Dell Pro Max Plus. Or Dell Premium vs Dell Pro???
Funny you should mention that, because AMD have updated their GPU naming to match nVidia with the 9000 series. AMD will now use 90X0 rather than 9X00 to make it clearer which nVidia cards they are targeting.
At least copy something good if you're about to copy.
The "Pro", "Max", "Pro Max" (and even "Ultra") naming scheme has been confusing to say the least.
The "Pro", "Max", "Pro Max" (and even "Ultra") naming scheme has been confusing to say the least.
I didn't expect someone talking sense here. It's a simple way to establish heirachy for increasingly Apple-conditioned people who don't know what they're buying. It also goes for corporate buyers who're also getting younger and probably dumber as they get ever more abstracted from tech.
Right? Won't be long until Lenovo follows suit. Their current models are:
Yoga
IdeaPad
ThinkPad
ThinkBook
LOQ
You can't tell you which line caters to what. Its only a matter of time until car trim levels will be the same.
I prefer Western Digital's approach of colors to define each models target use.
I’m convinced that Sony would be a lot more competitive in the computer space if they simplified their names. Some of their names are crazy.
Somehow, they’ve gotten away with it with headphones and had success with those. But Sony WH-1000XM5, that’s absurd.
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Name copying aside, I'm sad that Dell has downgraded the screen specs on a lot of these laptops. My old XPS at work has a screen that competes with my MacBook Air (bright and crisp, easy to look at) even if the internals can't compete. However, now it looks like - from the Dell site - that a lot of these new computers are only 300-400 nits of brightness. That seems like a step backward, if you compare to the XPS and Precision laptops from last year.
I've thought that too - I'm assuming Max means Maximum, except its not the maximum when there is an ultra. So bloody weird.
Now you watch, since another company has chosen to use “Pro Max” we’ll get an “iPhone 17 Extreme” next year instead.
It’s even easier to tell them to go pick up an iPad. Just… the iPad.
Bonus, they probably know how to use it better than the laptop.
Complete nonsense, Apple did not trademark the naming concept.
As far as I know, Apple doesn’t even technically have the trademark for the word “iPhone”, they license it from someone else who used it first.
Same reason the name of the “iTV” had to be changed before it was publicly released as the Apple TV.
I find Apple’s naming scheme confusing. At this point why not use “Good, Better, Best”?
If you’re going to quote Jobs, at least get it correct.
“i” was for consumer devices, “Power” was for professional devices. Not “Pro”.
And as he said a short eight years later at Mac world 2006, after they first announced the initial Apple computers powered by Intel, “We’re kinda done with Power”.
Seriously people, go on and on about how great Steve Jobs was and can’t even get things he said correct.
Also, Steve used his choice of bizarre marketing terms as well. iPod nano? Final cut express? iPod hi-fi?
Or how about this product name…
“Power Macintosh G4 Cube”.
Literally four separate individual words, one of which is just a letter and a number, with very little acknowledgment of what the product actually is.
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If I know Dell, it will eventually end up as something like the Dell Pro Max E4247 XPJ 23.