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I'm not happy about FW800.  I use it.  Of course I have a 17" PB, so I'll wait for a 17" model first.

MacBoy4139 wrote:

They changed it when it used a PowerPC to PowerBook, so it is only appropriate to change it again.

Uhoh. Looks like this one's somekind of moron.
PowerBook 100, first PowerBook I think, didn't have a PPC proc. PowerBook 230, I used, also, unless MiniTruth's had a go at the records, not a PPC based PowerBook.

Mac Book Pro sounds better than anything else (given they had no choice really but to change it).

Just wait until it's the MacBook Longitude and MacBook Inspiration – then you'll be sorry. []

iBubba wrote:

mahakali wrote:

MacBook sounds like a cooking book.

Then don't buy it.

:wah:

I may be in the minority here, but I kinda like it! It describes exactly what it is.  I recall a lot of bitching when the iPod came out and what a stupid name it was.  Seems to have worked out well, though.

No, the IR port looks kinda rushed. Why not in the button, like the sleep light?

Oh damn, I didn't see that... smurf, and I just got a nice FW800 drive with future in mind...

iBubba wrote:

mahakali wrote:

MacBook sounds like a cooking book.

Then don't buy it.

ooooooooooooooh, harsh!

'MacBook' seems so childish.   That whole love affair with 'i' this and 'i' that really should've ended years ago, but no, it still finds a place in all of Apple's [un]creative thought.

And now 'MacBook', which is posited in the same world as PowerBook, ThinkPad, IntelliNote, et al arrives in what is really, a small puff of smoke.   I see the power of this thing, but the name just takes all that away.   It reminds me of all those cool car names that end up meaning something else in another language - and I draw you attention to this site for more on product branding...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding

Don't get me wrong, I like it as a product, and I'll buy one next year, but telling someone I have an Apple MacBook Pro would probably be as embarrassing as telling someone in Spain that I drove a Mitsubishi Pajero (see the Wikipedia link).

Freakout Jackson wrote:

It's funny that there's 10x more complaining about the name (something totally inconsequential) than any 1 aspect of the configuration.
People need to complain for some odd reason. You can feel the complaints coming about something but the name?

++

Stupid post, Isn't it better to only have complaints about the name? And thinking it's stupid isn't complaining, why do you need complaining? Why should "we" complain about the hardware?
+ This is a thread dedicated to the name, If you'd notice.

People like the machine. Hence no complaints. Find the name stupid. Yes, me too.

I agree, the Name sounds awful, they should have stuck with powerbook.

Nice Specs though, very nice.

If I get one (we'll see how Apple's stock does in the next few days) I'll tell people it's a Powerbook.  90 percent of consumers know them simply as "Macs" anyway.  Hopefully there will be a lot more of those people very soon.

Freakout Jackson wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

PowerPad

For your heavy days.

Blech, Mac Book. Ewwwww!!! Worst name ever!!! Who wants to go up to their friends and say, "hey look at my new Macbook Pro." Come on, it just sounds childish and wrong for a pro level machine. Guess I spend more money on PC parts now and upgrading my Cube. With each Apple update i'm liking their hardware less and less.