I read that article on appleinsider yesterday and there is nothing in there that isn't purely abstracted from what Apple did with the Powerbook to the MacBook Pro. Everything was just transfered from the iBook. It soudns like a total guess to me. Any why does everyone think they will change the name to "MacBook". It was the work "POWER" that Steve said they wanted to shed. iBook is perfectly fine. Its not like they are going to rename the iPod to MacPod or something. We still have iLife and iWork. If anything, maybe iBook's become 600-800 laptops and MacBook (sans pro) so that there are three lines instead of two. This is at least more plausible since you can bring more people into the Mac world with a 600 laptop but keep pushing buyers up to higher end models. Sort of what they did with the Mac Mini.
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Andy @ Jan 28th 2006 12:19PM
I read that article on appleinsider yesterday and there is nothing in there that isn't purely abstracted from what Apple did with the Powerbook to the MacBook Pro. Everything was just transfered from the iBook. It soudns like a total guess to me. Any why does everyone think they will change the name to "MacBook". It was the work "POWER" that Steve said they wanted to shed. iBook is perfectly fine. Its not like they are going to rename the iPod to MacPod or something. We still have iLife and iWork. If anything, maybe iBook's become 600-800 laptops and MacBook (sans pro) so that there are three lines instead of two. This is at least more plausible since you can bring more people into the Mac world with a 600 laptop but keep pushing buyers up to higher end models. Sort of what they did with the Mac Mini.
Andy