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What's with the acronyms?

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bamaster

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Ok, I get the acronym MBP. Even MBPR (or rMBP to be cool).

But I see references to a cMBP, uMBP, and even pMBP. OMGWTH?

U = ultimate? You can have an "ultimate" configuration without the Retina display, so if you maxed out the Retina version, could we say it was urMBP? Silly.
 
It makes it a lot easier to type. As far as I know, cMBP stands for classic MBP, uMBP stand for unibody MBP, as for pMBP I have no clue on that one.

C = Classic (mostly referring to the generations that continued the design of the late PPC Mac laptops, before the unibody transition in 2008)

U = Unibody (refers to the redesign and applies to laptops from late 2008 to present)

R = Retina

P= ? (hopefully someone can clarify or define this, since I've never run across this)
 
Hmm... I see that now. Some people refer to the MY (model year), too.

I really thought the "u" was for ultimate though. Remember, that with the higher end Retina, there are 8 possibilities of configuration. At the Apple Store, they show an ultimate version, which is the 2.7/16/768 version. Anything other than that isn't ultimate in my opinion.
 
U does not mean ultimate, it means unibody.

Never saw c and p before.
 
I think uMBP is stupid, the new model is unibody as well. Yes it's the original unibody, but that's just too complicated.

cMBP makes the most sense for the non-retina models, rMBP makes sense for the Retina model, and I agree that anything other than the 2.7GHZ/16GB/768GB SSD Retina is not an uMBP, u meaning ultimate. People are calling their machines uMBP when that's completely subjective...
 
In my opinion, the most logical acronym is the most simple and most representative of what you are trying to say.

MacBook Pro, MBP
MacBook Pro Retina, MBPR

Just sayin'.
 
acronyms

use of acronyms goes beyond saving time typing.

The military uses acronyms ubiquitously. Use of Acronyms and the ability to understand them is like admission to a club. It creates an heir of " If you don't know the language, you don't belong." It makes the one who uses the acronym look intelligent.

Keep this in mind when you review posts with many acronyms
 
OCICILIONI said:
use of acronyms goes beyond saving time typing.

The military uses acronyms ubiquitously. Use of Acronyms and the ability to understand them is like admission to a club. It creates an heir of " If you don't know the language, you don't belong." It makes the one who uses the acronym look intelligent.

Keep this in mind when you review posts with many acronyms
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The military might also use them because it saves a lot of time and paper using something like SACLANT as opposed to Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. 7 characters vs. 31. Seems like a no brainier to me.

smh
 
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I saw someone use LMBP this morning and I snapped.

I'm with you. MBP and RMBP/MBPR or rMBP/MBPr.

I ended up finding that L stood for legacy. WTF.
 
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