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Originally Posted by ecirtap I got the solution - it should have been iMac Book Pro (i standing for Intel)... so everybody knows it is the same company manufacturing iMacs... and everybody might be a little more confused... LOL. |
I think Apple likes to reserve the "i" moniker for consumer products rather than their pro ones. Power Mac, PowerBook, Final Cut, DVD Studio Pro, etc. are all pro products. iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, iMac, and iBook are all consumer products. I think that distinction is important from a branding perspective.
That begs the question, why call it the "Pro" at all? Since they're keeping the "i" in iMac, I assume they'll do the same for the iBook. They never felt the need to call their old pro models PowerBook Pro or Power Mac Pro, so why the extra word now? Although I must admit that without the "Pro", "MacBook" sure doesn't sound like a professional product name. That's one reason I think it's a bad name; whatever the official title is, everyone will naturally just call them MacBooks.