"Mactel" not sexy enough... suggestions?
In reading some of the posts about the new arrangement, "Mactel" doesn't seem to cut the mustard-- it's bit clunky. I find "Appletel" a bit better, but it's forced, too.
Since Wintel is a mix of "Windows" and "Intel," I propose Xtel for "OS X" and "Intel"-- or at least beg for something that sounds a bit better than if McDonalds merged with BellSouth or something...
As my first forum offering, I felt is was important enough to post, so here it is. The last thing I want is for some terrible label to take hold before we've had our say about it.
Thinking caps everyone...
Since Wintel is a mix of "Windows" and "Intel," I propose Xtel for "OS X" and "Intel"-- or at least beg for something that sounds a bit better than if McDonalds merged with BellSouth or something...
As my first forum offering, I felt is was important enough to post, so here it is. The last thing I want is for some terrible label to take hold before we've had our say about it.
Thinking caps everyone...
Comments
I liked your XTel (After all the soul of a mac is the operating system)
I've seen APPTEL mentioned a few times (a bit less clunky that APPLETEL)
MacIntel?
MIntel (nah, sounds like a breath freshener)
PC becomes MC ???
Pentimac
Pentamac
UltraPower Mac
Mac Power Plus
UltraMac
Infinimac
Macalicious
Macnificent
Abstract Mac (abstracts the Processor)
Xcomp (computer that runs OS X)
HAL
Hypercube (req. buy trademark)
HyperMac
HypnoMac
intelMac
Macteligent
If Intel's a given, there's no sense in differentiating.
Originally posted by midwinter
Intellintosh.
The best I've seen yet.
I don't see why the names will change with the move to Intel.
Originally posted by ricksbrain
Since Wintel is a mix of "Windows" and "Intel," I propose Xtel for "OS X" and "Intel"
The operating system Apple uses is officially "Mac OS X." Therefore, to use the beginning three letters of the OS' name, as "Wintel" uses, the proper name to use *should* be "Mactel."
However, we Mac users are more sophisticated than that. I happen to like the coincidence that both Macintosh and Intel use "int" in their names. Hence, my suggestion is "Macintel," as others have used around here too.
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Originally posted by ZO
despite everything, I think Mactel will be the one that sticks (journalists, blogs, etc... )
Everything -tel and -in sounds
el cheapo. From a marketing pov i'd
suggest you guys to avoid these -fixes.
the
Apple g6 sextium
dude and dudettes, everything locks in perfectly
2006...
6-june-2006
6-6-6
devil, sin
sex
sexy - number 6
penta = 5 = pentium
next generation pentium = 5+1 = 6
sexta = 6
sextium.
6 ; g5 + 1 = g6
all hail 2006 and the year of Apple?s g6 sextium
ooh... fucking
sex
sextium....
sleek
sexy
svelte
suavé
6... 9... 69, get it...
999
666
etc
edit:
while my mind is still in the gutter... (well, we are talking marketing here)
Phil on the Sextium (he could rename himself the "dr. feelgood phil" of the computing world
"this time apple both delivers on the outside in terms of looks and sexiness with a raging power under the sheets... um i mean hood... with our partners Intel, the Apple g6 sextium both looks good and performs well everyday and all day... wish i could say that about my wif---- oh, where was i... yeah, sexiness, power, inside and outside."
................
what a great way to launch the 'mactel' (yes, mactel sounds crap)
Originally posted by midwinter
I think you want a G6 Getitonium.
I vote just plain ol' Macintosh again. At least after the transition's over, there won't be as much need to stipulate which chip...
computing platform. Maybe IBM will stay longer at the high end
if it can impliment it's road map. Time will tell.
MACINTOSH today, MACINTOSH tomorrow and MACINTOSH forefvaa!
Originally posted by Benton
We have no need to reference any parts supplier in our favored
computing platform. Maybe IBM will stay longer at the high end
if it can impliment it's road map. Time will tell.
MACINTOSH today, MACINTOSH tomorrow and MACINTOSH forefvaa!
Why do you use a hard return and then put an extra space
between each of the lines you type here? The box and server
will automatically wrap the text for you so that there is no longer a need for you to hit return or add an extra line, yo.
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT...
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AND
Mac OS X/