A Potted Rendition Of Notion Yields Miniature Summary
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| APPLE (3) | A Pleasing Printer, Little Expense |
Angela Brett, in response to EPSON |
| ATLANTIC (2) | Apple Tried Locating Another Name That Is Confusing |
Sean Lamb (Atlantic was Apple's code name for the Apple ][cx) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| AUTOBAHN | Apple Uses The Oddest Brands And Humorous Names |
Sean Lamb (Autobahn was Apple's code name for the PowerMac 9500/150) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| CARL SAGAN | Causing Another Ridiculous Law Suit, Apple Grouses Astronomer's Nerve |
Sean Lamb (Carl Sagan was Apple's code name for the Powermac 7100/66; when Mr. Sagan learned of the code name creation, he sued to prevent it's use within Apple) Names:Famous people Names:Code Names:Apple |
| EMAC | Even More Acceptable Contribution |
TMcCO'G - upon reading APPLE (6) |
| EMACS | Educational Machinery And Classroom Software |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FLAT WHITE (2) | Fine Little Apple That Will Have IBook Tykes Enthused. |
Angela Brett, thinking that the latest iBook, which is not curvy and colourful like the old ones, could be called the 'flat white'. |
| G4 | Grasping 4 |
Hyper Unit |
| GFOUR | Gigaflops For Ordinary Users - Revolutionary! |
Angela Brett |
| IBOOK (3) | It Belongs On One's Knee |
Angela Brett, partly as a response to those who complain that the iBook won't fit on an aeroplane tray. |
| IBOOK (4) | "It's Breathtaking!" -- Owner Of KeyLime |
Angela Brett, who has a key lime iBook. |
| IBOOK (5) | It's Broken, Obviously... Omitted Konsole! |
Steve Keate, summarising the reaction of a KDE (http://www.kde.org) user to an iBook. Computers:Linux |
| IBOOK (6) | Its Bright Outside's Overly Kooky |
Angela Brett |
| IBOOK (9) | I Bought One, Oh Kay! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| IBOOK (10) | It's Best Of Orchard-Kind! |
Angela Brett |
| IMAC | Incomparable Macintosh Awaits Connection |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| IMAC (2) | I Mailed A Companion! |
Angela Brett, after emailing Tony from an iMac at MacJava Cybercafe, the coolest cafe in Auckland. (Great ICED COFFEE, all sorts of historic Macs and Macazines, and great people.) |
| IMAC (6) | It Made Ample Cash |
Steve Keate |
| IMAC (7) | It's Mostly Always Colourful. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett. |
| IMAC (8) | Indigo Model Ain't Costly |
Angela Brett |
| IMAC (10) | It Mated A Crayon! |
Steve Keate, describing the answer an iMac owner would give if asked what happened to his/her old Mac Classic. |
| IMAC (11) | I Made A CD! |
Steve Keate, since most of the new iMacs have CD writers in them. |
| IMAC (12) | It Made A Clunk |
Steve Keate, guessing what an iMac user might say on taking it to be repaired. |
| IMAC (13) | Its Monitor Angle's Configurable |
Angela Brett, referring to the flat-screen iMacs. |
| IMAC (14) | Its Makers Added Character |
Angela Brett |
| IMAC (15) | It May Abridge Crashing |
Jeff Anonymous, who ordered an iMac G5 (17" combo drive) last Tuesday. It should ship by Thursday and will be replacing a Windows 98 PC that's freezing up a lot. |
| IMAC DV | Intuitively Makes Amateur Cinema... Delicious Variations! |
Angela Brett |
| IPOD | It's Portable, Omniuseful Disk |
Angela Brett, referring to Apple's 'iPod' mp3 player which doubles as a firewire hard disk. |
| IPOD (2) | I Paid - One Deposit |
Angela Brett, at 1a.m, after transferring some money to buy an Apple iPod. (Online banking should have safeguards in place to stop people from spending large amounts of money while they're half asleep!) |
| IPOD (3) | Impulse Purchase? Oh, Dear! |
Angela Brett, who did actually think for a while before buying an iPod, but it's still dear! |
| IPOD (4) | I[']m Patient (One Day!) |
Angela Brett, who ordered an iPod this morning and expects to receive it tomorrow. |
| IPOD (5) | Incredible Piece Of Design |
Angela Brett, a few hours after her iPod arrived. |
| KEY LIME | Keep Everything You Love In Macintosh Environment |
Angela Brett, who has a Key Lime IBOOK |
| LAPTOP | Laughingly, Apple's P1 Totally Outperforms P2 |
Angela Brett, referring to Apple's yet-to-be released consumer portable (codenamed p1) which will surely be a G3 and therefore faster than a Pentium 2. |
| LAPTOP (3) | Luckiest Are People That Operate PowerBooks |
Angela Brett |
| LOMBARD | Laptop Outer Made By Apple's Respected Developers |
Angela Brett (Lombard was the name of the casing for the PowerBook models codenamed Bronze Keyboard and Pismo.) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| MESSAGEPAD | My Erratic Script Sometimes Assists Good Expansion Production - Alternate Decipherings. |
Angela Brett, because she originally thought of 'My Erratic Scribbling' but her Newton MessagePad couldn't read that, and suggested Scripting - which, minus the -ing, is probably a better word for the expansion. |
| MESSAGEPAD (2) | Miniaturised Electronics Shall Someday Advance General Everyday Perusing And Documenting. |
Angela Brett, who was reading a book from her Newton MessagePad while on the bus, and thought that reading books and other publications from a handheld computer seemed like the way of the future. |
| NEWTON | Neat Electronic Wizardry Turned Out Notsopopular |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NEWTON (3) | Not Everyone Will Type Out Notes |
Angela Brett, who now uses a Newton MessagePad to take notes in class, while some students use laptops. |
| NEWTON (4) | Not Executive Wankers' Toy... Obsolete Now. |
Angela Brett |
| OLDTON | Often Loved Digital Toy, Once New(ton) |
Angela Brett, thinking of a name for her newly acquired, but old, Newton. |
| PARIS (3) | Perhaps Apple's Redesigning Its System? |
Sean Lamb (Paris was Apple's code name for the Macintosh II) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| PISMO | PowerBook Is Superlative Mobile Office. |
Angela Brett, referring to the last PowerBook G3 model, code-named 'Pismo.' Names:Code Names:Apple |
| POWERBOOK (2) | Power Outlet Wanted, Energy Recharges Battery Of One's Kneetop |
Angela Brett |
| POWERBOOK (3) | Plenty Of Width, Evading Reddish Blush Of Older Kneetop |
Angela Brett, who will be buying a PowerBook shortly before her hardware discount expires on February 26th 2005. My iBook's screen is decidedly pinkish until it's been on for a while, and I'm also looking forward to have a widescreen PowerBook after about six years of 800x600 resolution. It's okay for most things but using the developer tools requires a lot of shuffling around of windows, more than ever on Tiger. |
| YOSEMITES | You Own Some Expensive Macintoshes - It Tortures Envious Souls! |
Angela Brett - Yosemite was the code name for the blue and white Power Mac G3s. Names:Code Names:Apple |