Pismo, Lombard, Wallstreet, and Quicksilver are codenames. MDD refers to the last generation of Power Mac G4s with the Mirrored Drive Doors. Most of the time, people will use these names to differentiate one Power Mac/PowerBook model from another.
Many are internal Apple code names. I think there are generally two official names Apple gives to a product - the "short" one and the longer "descriptive" one. So if you buy an iBook, it's called just that - an iBook. Apple always chooses one descriptive term to add on to the end of the model name. With the last revision of the PowerMac G4, they choose "Mirrored Drive Doors" so everyone started calling them MDD G4s. Sometimes they're based on when the machine is released (i.e. iBook Late 2001) or on a certain specification of the machine (i.e. iBook 16 VRAM).
The "Pismo" as it is often referred to is actually a "PowerBook G3 Series (Firewire)" or a "PowerBook G3 Series (Feb 2000)." Pismo is just an internal code name.
You could look at the original Titanium PowerBook. Official name was simply "PowerBook G4," while the internal code name was "Mercury" and the nickname is "TiBook." Later PowerBook G4s were also called PowerBook G4s by Apple, and people still called them TiBooks, but their internal code names changed - Onyx was the 550/667 MHz "Gigabit Ethernet" revision, while Ivory is the 667/800 MHz "DVI" version. But no one calls their PowerBook an "Onyx" or "Ivory."
Let's see...
All CRT iMacs are just called iMacs as far as I know, with the only distinction normally being whether it's a tray-load optical drive or a slot-loader.
LCD iMacs are generally called by their screen size. Just 15" iMac or 17" iMac. Additional qualifiers are added as needed.
eMacs are just eMacs.
iBooks are sometimes called "iceBooks," "Dual USB iBooks" (for the white versions), or "Clamshells" (for the colored ones).
All PowerBook G4s except the aluminum ones are just "TiBooks."
PowerMacs go in order - Yikes! (PCI graphics), Sawtooth (AGP graphics), Gigabit Ethernet, Digital audio, Quicksilver, Quicksilver 2002, Mirrored Drive Doors, and MDD 2003.
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Originally posted by Dog Almighty
What was the iPod's codename?
"Digital Jukebox"
Originally posted by Dog Almighty
What was the iPod's codename?
Cigarettes
Wallstreet, Kanga, etc.: Codename.
B&W G3: Nickname
PCI G4, AGP G4: Name
iMac/00, iMac/Early01, iMac/Late99, etc.: Nickname
iBook (FireWire), PB (Bronze Keyboard), etc.: Name
Cheetah, Puma, etc.: Codename
Jagwire: Delibartely mispronounnced codename (like SJ says it because of accent or something.)
MDD G4: Name
Quicksilver, etc. Codename.
The "Pismo" as it is often referred to is actually a "PowerBook G3 Series (Firewire)" or a "PowerBook G3 Series (Feb 2000)." Pismo is just an internal code name.
You could look at the original Titanium PowerBook. Official name was simply "PowerBook G4," while the internal code name was "Mercury" and the nickname is "TiBook." Later PowerBook G4s were also called PowerBook G4s by Apple, and people still called them TiBooks, but their internal code names changed - Onyx was the 550/667 MHz "Gigabit Ethernet" revision, while Ivory is the 667/800 MHz "DVI" version. But no one calls their PowerBook an "Onyx" or "Ivory."
Let's see...
All CRT iMacs are just called iMacs as far as I know, with the only distinction normally being whether it's a tray-load optical drive or a slot-loader.
LCD iMacs are generally called by their screen size. Just 15" iMac or 17" iMac. Additional qualifiers are added as needed.
eMacs are just eMacs.
iBooks are sometimes called "iceBooks," "Dual USB iBooks" (for the white versions), or "Clamshells" (for the colored ones).
All PowerBook G4s except the aluminum ones are just "TiBooks."
PowerMacs go in order - Yikes! (PCI graphics), Sawtooth (AGP graphics), Gigabit Ethernet, Digital audio, Quicksilver, Quicksilver 2002, Mirrored Drive Doors, and MDD 2003.
Apple Museum's codename pages
a comprehensive all-in-one list from Apple Linkage (Japan), including OS, input devices, moniters [sic]
best of all is the tale of the Powermac 7100, codenamed Sagan after clever Carl.
It seems Carl (or his lawyers) expressed displeasure over news the internal codename echoed his
and made enough fuss and/or threats that Apple folk decided to change the name to... B.H.A.
which represented Butt-Head Astronomer
some rumours suggest recent models named "Q37" or such, but these may be mule 'build' #s
i prefer the old days of speculative metaphor abstraction
Dave.