OT - Care to share your opinion?

[Howard Shere]

On May 6, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Mark Guertin wrote:

> if it starts with "i" it's consumer ... iBook, iMac (except for e 
> which is also consumer -- eMac).  Also the color gives it away... if 
> it's white its a consumer machine (at least right now anyway).
>
> If it starts with "Power" its pro .. PowerBook, PowerMac.  They are 
> also metal looking materials in the current lineup.
>
> It used to be really bad back in the Spindler days ... when everything 
> was just a model number! hehe.  You had to consult a pro to tell 
> anything about them at that point in the game, that and the fact at 
> one point they had 20+ different models on sale all with seemingly 
> random (not that random once you got to know their schemes but 
> nonetheless scattered) model numbers.
>

For what its worth: I do all my development on my ibook. 800Mhz G3. I 
love it. Years of work. dawn to dusk. great machine! No problems. Ever.

Howard Shere
http://blogs.greendragon.com/index.php/gdc
Altair 8800a to Mac OS X so far...