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Originally Posted by ergo proxy If they went with the (for eg.)Intel Book name, what happens if Apple starts using AMD, cell or even revert to PPC in the future? |
There is no way that Apple would have ever used the word "Intel" in the name of any one of their machines. Everyone else calls them "Intel Macs", but Apple does not, and will not. The same goes for the term "WinTel", which is an industry term, and not one used by Microsoft. It has nothing to do with the fact that they might use AMD chips in the future. It has everything to do with the fact that no company is willing to highlight another organization in a place as prominent as the name of their product.
I actually hate the terms "Intel Mac", "MacTel", and "MacIntel", and prefer "Intel-based Mac". Intel really has nothing at all to do with the machine. It's just the chip. I can't wait until they are all Intel-based, and the PowerPC machines have long faded, so we can just refer to them as Macs.
As far as AMD is concerned (and this is way off-topic, I know), I hope they do start putting their chips in the Macs after a while. A company like Intel should not have so much power.