I don't think any of these suggestions are very good. I'll stick to 12" PowerBook and 17" PowerBook. Lapzilla is funny, but let's be serious here. I'm not going to call Apple Care and say "Hi, my Lapzilla is making a funny noise." It just sounds queer. Not every Apple Portable has to have a nickname. The iBook doesn't. You say either 12" iBook or 14" iBook, which is fine and no different than saying 12" PowerBook, 15" PowerBook, and 17" PowerBook. It sounds to me like you guys are just lazy and want to come up with a six letter word to save keystrokes. Some nicknames are good like Lombard, Pismo and TiBook, but I've yet to hear a good one for these new PowerBooks. Okay, I sort of like AluBook, but names like Lapzilla and LittleAl are stupid. It's that simple.
<strong>I don't think any of these suggestions are very good. I'll stick to 12" PowerBook and 17" PowerBook. Lapzilla is funny, but let's be serious here. I'm not going to call Apple Care and say "Hi, my Lapzilla is making a funny noise." It just sounds queer. Not every Apple Portable has to have a nickname. The iBook doesn't. You say either 12" iBook or 14" iBook, which is fine and no different than saying 12" PowerBook, 15" PowerBook, and 17" PowerBook. It sounds to me like you guys are just lazy and want to come up with a six letter word to save keystrokes. Some nicknames are good like Lombard, Pismo and TiBook, but I've yet to hear a good one for these new PowerBooks. Okay, I sort of like AluBook, but names like Lapzilla and LittleAl are stupid. It's that simple.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Take it as you will. You say 12" iBook (dual USB), I say iceBook. Its on that level we are talking here. I don´t expect the name chosen here to figure on their product pdf´s.
Does anyone know what the production codenames for these were? I heard somewhere that the 17" powerbook was referred to as Mini-Me by the developers (probably with some irony and also as a reference to the TV commercial) but that sounds like it would be confusing.
Wallstreet, Lombard, and Pismo were all development codenames, and it was only with the Tibook that we started making reference to the material the computer was made of. I guess Titanium sounds more impressive than Mercury (the original Tibook codename).
Frankly I really dislike Alubook, and it isn't specific enough. We need something that makes it easy to distinguish between
the two models, and it has to be something that you can type every day without being self-conscious. It took me quite a while to get used to Tibook...
I don't like that poll because you have to chose both at once. Maybe I like the name for the 17" in the poll but the name for the 12" that it's wed to sucks.
For those of you wanting to continue the Godzilla reference to the 12":
In the Movie "The Battle of Monster Island: Son of Godzilla" Godzilla's son's name is Minya. So logic would make it Lapminya, not that anyone would get the joke, but there it is.
<strong>I don't like that poll because you have to chose both at once. Maybe I like the name for the 17" in the poll but the name for the 12" that it's wed to sucks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
[badhumor] as the new powerbook is in ANodized ALuminium; wouldn't this add up to the ANALpower (book), which we could differentiate by giving the even cuter;
BIGanal
SMALLanal
anyone care for an ANAL pb? feel free to add powerbook at the end..[/badhumor]
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<a href="http://www.misterpoll.com/680272291.html"; target="_blank">The official Book naming poll</a>
17": GiganTiBook
<strong>12": TinyBook
17": GiganTiBook</strong><hr></blockquote>
Too late
[ 01-12-2003: Message edited by: Kecksy ]</p>
<strong>I don't think any of these suggestions are very good. I'll stick to 12" PowerBook and 17" PowerBook. Lapzilla is funny, but let's be serious here. I'm not going to call Apple Care and say "Hi, my Lapzilla is making a funny noise." It just sounds queer. Not every Apple Portable has to have a nickname. The iBook doesn't. You say either 12" iBook or 14" iBook, which is fine and no different than saying 12" PowerBook, 15" PowerBook, and 17" PowerBook. It sounds to me like you guys are just lazy and want to come up with a six letter word to save keystrokes. Some nicknames are good like Lombard, Pismo and TiBook, but I've yet to hear a good one for these new PowerBooks. Okay, I sort of like AluBook, but names like Lapzilla and LittleAl are stupid. It's that simple.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Take it as you will. You say 12" iBook (dual USB), I say iceBook. Its on that level we are talking here. I don´t expect the name chosen here to figure on their product pdf´s.
AluBook is booooring and too obvious.
<strong>None of you guys write ad copy I guess.
Little Al
Big Al.
Thank you Apple, I expect my commission in the mail promptly.</strong><hr></blockquote>
If only "Little Al" didn't remind me of a wife-beating, alcoholic, washed-up IRL Indy car driver...
Wallstreet, Lombard, and Pismo were all development codenames, and it was only with the Tibook that we started making reference to the material the computer was made of. I guess Titanium sounds more impressive than Mercury (the original Tibook codename).
Frankly I really dislike Alubook, and it isn't specific enough. We need something that makes it easy to distinguish between
the two models, and it has to be something that you can type every day without being self-conscious. It took me quite a while to get used to Tibook...
MegaBook
MiniBook
Forget those weird word associations that not everyone gets, or nicknames that are WAY too long.
MegaBook and Minibook are simple, descriptive, easy to type, and easy to say.
[ 01-12-2003: Message edited by: CosmoNut ]</p>
<strong>Forgive my confusion. But, why not just call the 12"er the G4 iBook that it actually is?</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's what PiBook is.
In other words: Bump
In the Movie "The Battle of Monster Island: Son of Godzilla" Godzilla's son's name is Minya. So logic would make it Lapminya, not that anyone would get the joke, but there it is.
FYI:
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ego/g_saga/sonofgodzilla.html"; target="_blank">Movie Snyopsis</a>
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<strong>I don't like that poll because you have to chose both at once. Maybe I like the name for the 17" in the poll but the name for the 12" that it's wed to sucks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
RTFM
BIGanal
SMALLanal
anyone care for an ANAL pb? feel free to add powerbook at the end..[/badhumor]
17" - <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005B6Z1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"; target="_blank">George Foreman Family Size Plus Grill with Cookbook</a>
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