notebook error
http://www.store.apple.com/Apple/Web...&type=higherEd
on the cram and jam section on the right.. shouldn't it say "powerbook" instead of notebook?
on the cram and jam section on the right.. shouldn't it say "powerbook" instead of notebook?
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Originally posted by macwork
http://www.store.apple.com/Apple/Web...&type=higherEd
on the cram and jam section on the right.. shouldn't it say "powerbook" instead of notebook?
No.
PowerBook and iBook are just Apple's trademarked brand names for the notebooks they make and sell.
PowerBooks and iBooks are notebooks. Other companies make other kinds of notebooks with other brand names.
"Notebook" is a class of device. Notebook, server, desktop, handheld, palmtop, hiptop, sub-notebook, PIM, wearable, console.
Note that "laptop" is rarely ever used by Apple, no doubt to avoid lawsuits from people becoming sterile or burned from using it on their laps or for accidents from it being knocked over.
Using the generic word keeps Apple "in the running" for those simple people that think "but my school says I need a notebook, they didn't mention PowerBook or iBook".
PowerBooks and iBooks are even PC notebooks. Personal computers in a notebook form-factor. But "PC" and "notebook" are too often mistaken to mean "Any computer that runs Windows/Linux that isn't a Macintosh".
A PC can run whatever OS a company decides to use and it is still a PC. Even if it's running Mac OS.