As you can see, this naming system is incredibly efficient. Every machine is now a "Pro" machine, and real professional machines are now "Pro Extreme". Also, consumer machines are "Super" while pro machines are "Ultra." Finally, notice that the 5xxxx series uses a CRT screen, the 6xxxx series uses an LCD screen, the 7xxxx series use a single processor in a tower, and the 8xxxx series uses dual processors in a tower. My suspicion is that Apple's saving the 9xxxx series for an upcoming quad-processor machine. When they hit octets... I suppose they'll just have to add yet another word or symbol onto their model numbers.
So it's going to be the Street Fighter naming convention?
Apple presents the PowerMac Super Ultra Pro EX Alpha 2600!
I don't mind the X thing per se, but I think that would be a little weak with Windows XP and the Athlon XP. It would just seem like we made it to the X party late. And I definitely don't like the idea of being compared to those Mountain Dew knucleheads with the Xtreme thing.
What if they just got rid of the Gx-thing, and kept just the 'PowerMac' name?
PowerMac
Well, they did that with the Powerbook, and none of the other computers have anything other than ___Mac or ___Book in their names, so that's very possible.
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Originally posted by NETROMac
Wouldn't it also look almost the same as the G4?
PowerMac G4
PowerMac 64
They like Roman numbers: PowerMac LXIV.
Portables: iBook and Powerbook
Desktops: iCube and Powercube
AIO: eMac and iMac
High End: XStation($2500 and up)
Originally posted by LowB-ing
How about this for a lineup:
Portables: iBook and Powerbook
Desktops: iCube and Powercube
AIO: eMac and iMac
High End: XStation($2500 and up)
Noooo, no more X-names.
How hard can it be to come up with a really good name for a computer
Come on Apple, think different...
How hard can it be to come up with a really good name for a computer
Pretty hard, evidently...8)
doh.....
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
As you can see, this naming system is incredibly efficient. Every machine is now a "Pro" machine, and real professional machines are now "Pro Extreme". Also, consumer machines are "Super" while pro machines are "Ultra." Finally, notice that the 5xxxx series uses a CRT screen, the 6xxxx series uses an LCD screen, the 7xxxx series use a single processor in a tower, and the 8xxxx series uses dual processors in a tower. My suspicion is that Apple's saving the 9xxxx series for an upcoming quad-processor machine. When they hit octets... I suppose they'll just have to add yet another word or symbol onto their model numbers.
So it's going to be the Street Fighter naming convention?
Apple presents the PowerMac Super Ultra Pro EX Alpha 2600!
PowerMac
IntelFvck
unfortunately it doesnt sound very markeetable.
(for some
Originally posted by k_killmore
So it's going to be the Street Fighter naming convention?
Apple presents the PowerMac Super Ultra Pro EX Alpha 2600!
PowerMac Super Mega Giga Rocky l33t Hyper Fire Ultra Pro Hairy Glossy 4462000
Where the number at the end is the product of the multiplication (processor name-number * number of processors * processor frequency)
Who's your daddy?....you are Steve....You wan't some of my 970?...yes, Steve..please give me your 970......Yeah, you like that don't you?.....
- 'you cant get enough of it'
- 'you would step over your own mother to get one'
- 'you would sell your fillings to render just one more time...'
or
Xstation & Xserve
Originally posted by r-0X#Zapchud
What if they just got rid of the Gx-thing, and kept just the 'PowerMac' name?
PowerMac
Well, they did that with the Powerbook, and none of the other computers have anything other than ___Mac or ___Book in their names, so that's very possible.
Und dann....
eMac
iMac
iBook
Powerbook
Power Mac
XServe
powerful enough to alter the very fabric of reality, neo
makes other computers look like they're in freeze frame
so you can go Wachowski on their lame old 32-bit butts