MacBook slip up

It looks like Apple's web elves made a mistake earlier today. If you went to apple.com/ipod earlier today you were greeted not with iPod dancers, but rather the screenshot above. Notice the 'MacBook' sans Pro there. Does this mean that the rumor mill is right, and we will see Intel iBooks as soon as this Tuesday?
Who knows, but a boy can dream.
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andy said 12:00PM on 5-05-2006
a good sign! have you noticed how this seems to happen a lot on the apple website, maybe they do it on purpose to start people off talking? free publicity.
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Hobbes said 12:38PM on 5-05-2006
I agree. It looks more like a publicity stunt. Not bad at all I would say and it seems to work really well.
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Stephan said 1:39PM on 5-05-2006
Taking a screenshot of it from a windows machine? tsk tsk tsk... :P
Good catch, everybody!
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John Hood said 1:42PM on 5-05-2006
A veritable PR panacea?
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CajunLuke said 4:27PM on 5-05-2006
3: that's not Windows, that's how DeerPark looks.
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Mr Lizard said 7:23PM on 5-05-2006
No, that's from a Windows machine. Deer Park looked no different from Firefox, way back when it was released.
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Raphael said 8:34PM on 5-05-2006
Has no-one ever found the name "MacBook" to not really fit the naming scheme?
Think: If the pro portable is named MacBook Pro and the consumer desktop iMac, then the pro desktop should logicially be named Mac Pro and the consumer portable: iMacBook.
Kinda love that name: iMacBook. Just say it a few times. Logic above all!
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Reg said 9:05PM on 5-05-2006
Funnily enough, I like the name "MacBook" far more than "MacBook Pro." The latter has too many syllables and people don't know where to put the emphasis.
However, once the MacBook ne iBook is released, I think it will make a lot more sense. I think the new naming scheme will be:
Old name............New Name
iMac...................iMac
iBook.................MacBook
PowerBook.........MacBook Pro
Power Mac..........Mac Pro
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Mark Thomson said 10:20AM on 5-06-2006
I think MacBook sounds about right, considering we have the Mac Mini. (what is to become of the eMac though?)
On the MacBook Pro, the name is growing on me and considering i have the 17" model on the way. I just get the feeling the next Pr desktop will just end up being called the G6 in froums and in casual conversation with my fellow geeks.
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John said 8:36PM on 5-06-2006
Shouldnt they name the iMac the Macmac?
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Kyle said 9:45PM on 5-07-2006
The eMac is not going to be a CRT, i read that apple has abandoned CRT because of the heavy metals in lieu of its new environmental programs.
As for naming, they want MAC in their names, which is why iMac didnt change. Why should Powermac or eMac?
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Chris said 4:10PM on 5-08-2006
Based on the naming scheme, shouldn't the new PowerMac be called a ProMac? Take a hard look at #8 and do part-for-part comparisons. Seems like ProMac sounds a lot more fluid than Mac -- Pro. I really doubt they'll call the new PowerMac a MacMac.
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yes said 5:28PM on 9-14-2006
YES! MAC MAC
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