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Originally Posted by doemel BTW, the PowerBook name has been around ever since the PowerBook 100 replaced the first real portable computer by Apple, the Macintosh Portable. |
And for those who aren't up on their ancient Mac specs (shame on you!
), those early PowerBooks were not PowerPC-based; they used Motorola's 68k processor line. It took a few more years before the PowerPC was used in PowerBooks.
I don't really like the name, either, but I understand Apple's desire to give it a more brand-centric name. All of Apple's other lines either have their trademark "i" or have the word "Mac" in them.
I thought "iMac" was a retarded name at first, too (when the "i" was supposed to stand for "Internet").