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Okay. You go boycott it, I won't. I don't particularly _like_ "MacBook" as a name, but that's what they're called. It's really a bit whiney to "boycott" the name change.
You're absolutely right about the fact that the name "PowerBook" didn't originate as a reference to the PowerPC processor. But look at it this way: The name's over a dozen years old now. A little bit of rebranding can't hurt. And he _is_ right about putting "Mac" in the name. Those early PowerBooks with 68K processors inside were named "Macintosh PowerBook 1xx/5xx", not just "PowerBook", so back then, you clearly had the brand name Macintosh in the name, and "PowerBook" was just an extension to that like "Plus", "SE", "Centris" or "Quadra". Things change, man...
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