Neither. Apple has nothing to do with the Telephone company.
It is just good old OSX. Think about LINUX that runs on PPC and X86 and nobody goes around trying to come up with silly names LINUXTel.
When the new X86 machines start selling apple shouldn't even bother to say which CPU is inside. It doesn't matter anymore nor should anybody really care.
Neither. These will be Apple powermacs, powerbooks, iMacs and iBooks. (oh and mac minis). The chip manufacturer has no place in those names.
The "G" series names drifted away from moto/IBM nomenclature years ago. The G5/G4 monikers will be dropped almost for certain. Apple could choose to go with G6 (unlikely) or with another differentiator. It is a marketting decision. In any case, they will have to find someway for marketting to differentiate the power and i lines.
We should not use either one of those names. I like MacIntel, but tthis is nothing other than a slang description that people attach to something, nothing official.
Let's call it what it really is... Apple using Intel processors in the Mac to run OS X.
I have disliked all the suggested combo names I've seen for this until I saw Anders say "Macintel". That's not that bad. Better than anything I've heard yet anyway.
Why are you folks so quick to throw Intel's name into the mix? Let us not forget, Wintel is predominantly a negative connotation used by Mac people when referencing "them".
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We don't talk about MacIBM or MacMoto do we?
Originally posted by kiwi-in-dc
Neither, it's still just OS X...
Or perhaps OS XI
It is just good old OSX. Think about LINUX that runs on PPC and X86 and nobody goes around trying to come up with silly names LINUXTel.
When the new X86 machines start selling apple shouldn't even bother to say which CPU is inside. It doesn't matter anymore nor should anybody really care.
The "G" series names drifted away from moto/IBM nomenclature years ago. The G5/G4 monikers will be dropped almost for certain. Apple could choose to go with G6 (unlikely) or with another differentiator. It is a marketting decision. In any case, they will have to find someway for marketting to differentiate the power and i lines.
Let's call it what it really is... Apple using Intel processors in the Mac to run OS X.
Yep... long name, but sounds good.
Cool people:
MacInt or MacIn or Maci -- all said as though its one syllable
For those with NO Mogo:
iMacntel or MacIntel or MacTel (Its not a telephone) or MacTeli
For the Angry ones:
MacHel or MacInHell
For those who get the advanced universal runtime (coming):
MacEverywhere or MacE
No mactel, macintel, xtel, wintel... nothing.
Jobs bows to no processor maker! The Apple and OS X names shall do no such thing either!
But I guess you're right.
It's still an Apple Computer
But what do we do about the PowerMac series?
Without the Power PC, will it still be called a PowerMac? PowerBook?
Originally posted by FallenFromTheTree
I've been callig the AppTel, but I guess you're right.
It's still an Apple Computer
But what do we do about the PowerMac series?
Without the Power PC, will it still be called a PowerMac?
Yes.
Originally posted by New
put macintel on the list.
Agreed. Macintel all the way...
Ah couldn't resist. I don't give a damn about
the new name, as long as they
avoid any variants or broken anagrams of intel .
meaning: no Mactel, no Apptel, or any other fun-pun-tel.
Am i the only one who feels, that Macintel,
Telmac or whatever simply sounds el cheapo grande?
Crazychester, your turn please.
Maybe something more creative and/or original?
Think Different.
originally posted by rageous:
Maybe something more creative and/or original?
Think Different.
You're right. No Intel. I'm sure the folks at Apple will kick derierre with the name. When have they not?