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What to call the new Intel Macs?
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Sun Baked said:
ROFLMAO - that's seriously the funniest thing I've seen all day.
What about Apptel?
PowerBook can stay since it was in place before the PowerPC came around. (All Mac laptops aside from the original suitcase sized Mac Portables have been called PowerBooks)iBunny said:I dont think they they will keep Powermac anymore... or Powerbook... I mean they might, but I would like to see a change.
They should call it the Intelli-Mac
For the non-iMac's, I'd vote for one of the following:
- Macintosh III (my favorite)
- Macintosh IV (in case you consider the PowerMac to be the "III" series)
- NeXTintosh!
"PowerMac" may have originally been the opposite of the 'plain' Macintosh (PowerPC vs 68k), but over time it's become the opposite of the iMac (pro vs consumer), so I don't think Apple will have any trouble continuing to call its pro Macs "PowerMacs". As for the PowerBook, as someone pointed out already, it had that name even when there was a 68k inside so the name will probably remain the same.
By the way, if the PowerPC is III, (and I'm assuming 68k is II), what's number I? The Lisa?
By the way, if the PowerPC is III, (and I'm assuming 68k is II), what's number I? The Lisa?
According to the old MacKiDo site (not still being updated, but a wealth of info that David K. Every keeps up to date):homerjward said:
- G1 = PowerPC 601 series http://mackido.com/Hardware/G1.html
- G2 = PowerPC 603 & 604 series http://mackido.com/Hardware/G2.html
- G3 = PowerPC 7x0 series http://mackido.com/Hardware/G3.html
- G4 = PowerPC 7x00 series http://mackido.com/Hardware/G4.html
- G5 = PowerPC 970 series (Mackido is too old for real G5 info - there are some interesting predictions at http://mackido.com/Hardware/G5.html and http://mackido.com/Hardware/G5Redux.html, but they turned out to be wrong since Motorola never did a G5 chip)
I'm afraid they might resort to what other pc mfr do.. Power Mac 2140, 2150, etc, etc...
I really hope they don't though and come up with something creative. UltraMac. PowerMac Gigator.. i dunno.. lol
Powerbooks will keep the Powerbook name though.. Powerbook M?
I really hope they don't though and come up with something creative. UltraMac. PowerMac Gigator.. i dunno.. lol
Powerbooks will keep the Powerbook name though.. Powerbook M?
cube said:
*Whap*Smack*Whap*Smack*Whap*Smack*
Feel better?
Please go check out the OS X On Intel Q&A.
BTW: Despite the fact that the press has made the term "PC" synonimous with Windows the term applies to all machines designed for use in the common market (Personal Computer) and was originally coined to describe the Apple.
If you are implying that Apple will now simply be producing yet another Windows machine minus the Window please check the threads in the technical section. There's enough bad info floating around without adding sarcastic one liners.
When Steve Jobs re-did the product lineup he made the monikers' current context quite clear: "Powerbooks and PowerMacs for the Professionals and Power Users, iMac and iBook for the consumer and casual users." The consumer side has since expanded via iPod, eMac and the Mac Mini and the Pro side has expanded with the xServe line.
Note that none of these prefixes have changed as various chips have cycled through them except in technical reference manuals where differentiating the iMac rev. A-D, the Slotloading iMac, the iMac G4 and the iMac G5 (for example) is significant because all their workings are different. All of these were marketed and packaged as "iMac" or "The New iMac" with the exception of the iMac DV Special Edition which was not a processor difference but one of features. All of the current monikers are about features.
The current monikers will stay, only the suffixes used by the techies will change.
rowanhall said:
In general, You can contract for whatever you want assuming that you have some bargaining power. I second the notion that Apple used it's bargaining power (which is the result of Intel wanting to sign Apple up and Apple having the option to stay with PPC, go with AMD, figure out some other arrangement, [in general just not go with Intel]) in a manner that will not result in stickers on the machines unless Apple so chooses and further used that bargaining power so that there's no financial penalty (i.e., higher prices) for not doing so.
I have to second that these, like my old IIsi, will be called Macintosh computers, Macs for short.
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