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How do you refer to your MacBook Pro?
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I refer to mine in different ways depending on whom I'm speaking with. In casual conversation I say "my Mac". If I'm trying to keep the brand anonymous or if I'm trying to be humble I'll say "my laptop/computer". In situations that require a little more zest I might say "my MacBook Pro". I would never refer to it as a "MacBook" or "PC", though.
See this is why I think it was better when it was iBook and Powerbook cause you didn't have "Pro" or "Air" at the end. Powerbook or iBook rolls off so much better.
I call it my "MacBook" in everyday conversation. It's probably due to the fact that the MacBook was my first Apple notebook. That and "MacBook Pro" just sounds a bit odd and showy-offy in normal convo. Same thing with my iPod Touch. I just call it my "iPod". When I had an iPhone 4 it was called my "iPhone". Prefix and suffix descriptors bug the heck out of me in general, and it's why I was pleased when Apple dropped the numeric crap and returned to "iPad".
It had to be one of Steve's ego driven decisions to throw away one of the best model names ever: PowerBook, only to label it a MacBook Pro.
Years of success created a very nice track record and immediate recognition for the PowerBook line.
Some will make excuses and argue the name had to be changed when Apple joined Microsoft in selecting Intel chips. Yet I found it hilarious after years of bashing what Apple called "WinTel" boxes.
Just goes to show you Apple has mastered the art of hypocrisy
Years of success created a very nice track record and immediate recognition for the PowerBook line.
Some will make excuses and argue the name had to be changed when Apple joined Microsoft in selecting Intel chips. Yet I found it hilarious after years of bashing what Apple called "WinTel" boxes.
Just goes to show you Apple has mastered the art of hypocrisy
It had to be one of Steve's ego driven decisions to throw away one of the best model names ever: PowerBook, only to label it a MacBook Pro.
Years of success created a very nice track record and immediate recognition for the PowerBook line.
Some will make excuses and argue the name had to be changed when Apple joined Microsoft in selecting Intel chips. Yet I found it hilarious after years of bashing what Apple called "WinTel" boxes.
Just goes to show you Apple has mastered the art of hypocrisy
Not sure if they mastered the art. Times change. PowerPC wasn't able to fulfill their needs and Intel was advancing to where Apple wanted to go. At least this is how I understand it to be. I was messing around with AMD processors while all this was going on.
My MacBook Pro. I also refer to my phone as my iPhone. It may come across as pretentious, but up that's just the way I've always referred to them.
It had to be one of Steve's ego driven decisions to throw away one of the best model names ever: PowerBook, only to label it a MacBook Pro.
Years of success created a very nice track record and immediate recognition for the PowerBook line.
Some will make excuses and argue the name had to be changed when Apple joined Microsoft in selecting Intel chips. Yet I found it hilarious after years of bashing what Apple called "WinTel" boxes.
Just goes to show you Apple has mastered the art of hypocrisy
Haha, oh they have perfected that art of hypocrisy.
2010 13" Macbook - Who needs CPU? Graphics card is where it's at!
2011 13" Macbook - Graphics are useless, you want a super CPU!
But the PowerBook model name had nothing to do with it's CPU, that's what many people that don't know their Apple history fail to realize.
PowerBook was a name chosen by Apples brilliant marketing team. A name that became iconic, well known & respected.
Specific labelling may sound pretentious, but Mac is one syllable so it just works quite nicely. Sometimes I may say laptop or MacBook but they are just as easy to say so it's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other really. I would find saying MacBook Pro quite odd though (in a non-technical discussion), because it would just sound like I'm making the extra effort to show off something superfluous.
Yep, same here. I just call it "a Mac", or "Macbook", or "Mac laptop" unless I need to clarity further, then I say "Macbook Pro."