Following yesterday morning’s MacDailyNews report Apple iBook to become ‘MacBook’ while ‘MacBook Pro’ will offer more screen size choices soon, AppleInsider reports that sources have said, “Apple Computer’s new MacBook Pro line of laptops simply represents a re-branding of its previous PowerBook G4 line and will not affect the company’s consumer iBook offerings, which will see their own share of updates in the coming months.”
Kasper Jade and Katie Marsal report for AppleInsider. “Sources familiar with the company’s Intel plans say the Mac-maker will continue to build on the MacBook Pro product line later this year with the addition of new models, but will first introduce a fresh wave of iBook consumer laptops in the second calendar quarter… Apple may also choose to re-brand its iBooks under a different name. As part of its transition to Intel chips, sources say Apple wants to display its “Mac” trademark more prominently on its personal computers in an effort to both leverage and better distinguish the Mac brand. Inline with speculation, sources agree that renaming the iBook to “MacBook” would make the most logical sense.”
Full article here.
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Apple iBook to become ‘MacBook’ while ‘MacBook Pro’ will offer more screen size choices soon – January 11, 2006.
I want a 17″ MacBook Pro..
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I don’t agree with the idea that Apple will re-brand the iBook sa the “MacBook”. Taking the iMac as my cue, I think they will keep the iBook name, keeping it in line with the iMac line. This was part of naming schema that Jobs showed when the Powerbooks and iBooks were first introduced, remember? So I think if anything will change, the PowerMac will become the “Mac Pro” or the “Pro Mac”. (or something like that)
eh.. and the POWER Macs will be..
Mac Pros
eh?
sounds really really stupid
they’ll think of sth
better than calling them Mactels, which people can’t seem to stop doing.
If Apple want to keep momentum up with the iPod halo effect and brand recognition etc, losing the i prefix (for the consumer models- iMac, iPod, iBoo,k iLife, iTunes and so on) is silly.
Drop it for iWork… if you must, but KEEP iBook!
Start a petition! Keep the i.
I wish my parents would have called me Bobby.
Wow… these people are brilliant… “As part of its transition to Intel chips, sources say Apple wants to display its “Mac” trademark more prominently on its personal computers” Umm didn’t Jobs say that at the freaking keynote?
MW Floor: The floor is smarter than some of these “reporters”
I think iMacBook makes more logical sense.
iMac…Mac Pro
iMacBook…MacBook Pro
“i” identifies it as consumer, “Pro” identifies it as Prosumer, “Book” identifies it as a notebook.
This helps leverage the success of the iMac brand in notebooks. The only question remaining is, what will the new Mac mini be called? Could stay the same, or could become iMac mini…
G-ZUS WANTS APPLE STOCK!
http://musobs.blogspot.com
but it’s all hot air for now.
anonymous sources have been ALL over the place lately, mostly wrong.
we’ll see when we see.
uh…MAC is already in PowerMac…so you don’t need to rebrand it…dolt…lol
I think they should name their computers:
iMac and ProMac
and the laptops:
iMac Mobile and ProMac Mobile
http://musobs.blogspot.com
iMacBook
they are getting away from ‘POWER’ not Mac
er “Mike is dumb”… Power will go for sure.
it has everything to do with the Power PC chips.
iMacBook sound good to me.
The changing of the name Powerbook, i can understand, it didnt have the name mac in it. However, the name iBook already has an apple name in it…the letter i. IF they rename the iBooks, they should also start a new line…called MacPods…if they are doing away with the iBooks name, then they should also put mac in the iPods name. Please keep it iBook!
It’s god-awful, but makes about as much sense
It’s going to be iMacBookPower Pro and iMacintelBookPowerPod Pro.
Trust me, a guy from Apple told me.
A magazine is generally thinner and lighter than a book. Therefore a portable might be called a MacMag.
Who cares what they’re called as long as they are the coolest screaming machines ever?!
My take:
PowerBook becomes MacBook Pro
Power Mac becomes Mac Pro
iBook becomes MacBook
iMac becomes … Mac?
I think it will be:
iBook = MacBook
PowerBook = MacBook Pro
iMac = iMac
PowerMac = Mac Pro (or maybe ProMac)
I mean, there is no reason to change the name “iMac” since there is already a “Mac” in the title. Plus, the “i” reminds people of iPod, which is what will help the halo effect.
I think MacBook Pro is a fine name, people will stop whining about it in a few months after they get used to it, just like people got used to “Attack of the Clones,” or the weird blank white space underneath the iMac G5 screen.
Of course they were PowerBooks even before the PowerPC processor.