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Future MacBook Pro Owners.... Names for Your Computer?

jefhatfield said:
and here i am while i go to the bathroom...so i pick up macworld, and lo and behold, i find out that the "powerbook" was called that before the power pc processor...wow

so i guess it's not so weird for me to call a non ppc laptop a "powerbook"
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C'mon, get with the programme! PowerBooks have been called PowerBooks since the very first of the first! Alan Kay (the father of the laptop, and an Apple Fellow from '84-'96) called his concept the DynaBook - Stevo wanted something with a little more oompf, and so 'PowerBook' was born. Kay's maxim was, "the best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Now you see why people are a little upset about the name change? There's some serious heritage going on here! :D
 
Marky_Mark said:
C'mon, get with the programme! PowerBooks have been called PowerBooks since the very first of the first! Alan Kay (the father of the laptop, and an Apple Fellow from '84-'96) called his concept the DynaBook - Stevo wanted something with a little more oompf, and so 'PowerBook' was born. Kay's maxim was, "the best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Now you see why people are a little upset about the name change? There's some serious heritage going on here! :D
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now that is some heritage and it compares with predictable, rowdy mets fans and the pervasive urine smell that is a necessity in hollywood on the walk of fame ;)

i say call it "go-go book extreme"
 
jefhatfield said:
i say call it "go-go book extreme"
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He jests. The man jests. Somebody...tell me the man jests...please? Go-go -- urgh - can't... even... finish... the sentence!

Heathen. :D
 
I have a very generic, but consistent naming scheme:

Zed, followed be whatever it is. Not very imaginative, I know.

So I have names like:

Zed 8600, Zed Portable (Lombard/Pismo), iZed (iMac G5), Zed Pod, Zed Backup (external drive).

I think I might actually use ZedBook for this one. And no, I am not British. :p
 
heh...

I'm thinking of naming it the same as the only non-'PowerBook' mobile computer from Apple.

Yes, indeed, my new MacBook Pro will be named 'Macintosh Portable'... (Oh, wait, my Portable is already named that.)
 
Hmmm.... I think I'm going to stick with the name my sister called it when I first mentioned it to her: "AppleBook." Kind of cheesy, but differentiates itself from the crappy PCs in my household. :D
 
I think I'm going to name mine Darwin - after both Apple's Darwin and the scientist. :D

I'm a newbie to Mac OS X (I've been a lover of Macs for two+ years, but I'll only be getting a Tiger machine until my MacBook Pro)... is it safe to rename the HDD into "Darwin" or whatever?

Krevnik said:
I have a very generic, but consistent naming scheme:
Zed, followed be whatever it is. Not very imaginative, I know.
So I have names like:
Zed 8600, Zed Portable (Lombard/Pismo), iZed (iMac G5), Zed Pod, Zed Backup (external drive).
I think I might actually use ZedBook for this one. And no, I am not British. :p
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Are you a hardcore Diablo II/Breath of the Dying fan by chance?
If I were a true hardcore fan, I'd name my Mac after the rarest rune in the game :p
 
Mine will be named 'Gear,' a name currently held by the notebook it is replacing. I name my machines after the hounds of shadow from Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series - Baran, Blind, Doan, Ganrod, Gear, Rood and Shan. That said, my HTPC is named Tehol, after another character in the series.
 
My machines are called:

Alpha (my server)
Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, etc...

might call my new MacBook Pro "Zeta". dunno hehe. it's got some 'zing' to it.
 
thegreatluke said:
... is it safe to rename the HDD into "Darwin" or whatever?
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I was curious to know this too...can you change the name of the HD at any point in time without causing any problems?
 
PieMac said:
Thanks...now I just need to come up with a good name! :)
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That is the challenging part. My iMac was named Holly within hours of being opened and set-up. I need to come up with some new choices myself in the next month or two when the next computer arrives.
 
PieMac said:
Thanks...now I just need to come up with a good name! :)
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I like mine. Nice and simple.

edit: (Yes, my old 12" PowerBook's is named 'PowerBook HD', with its icon one of a 12" PowerBook, and the eMac 'eMac HD', with an icon of an eMac.)
 
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