Post your favorite Apple/OS X terminology fumbles

[dizavin]

mine are from new owners or uninitiated PC users who get the model names messed up.

"yeah, I got one of those new iMac Mini Pro Books. The Oh Ess Ex version."

[tokenuser]

Mine is the overly zealous Apple user who doesn't realise that the Mac they are using is actually a PC.

True story - back early 90's the company I worked for was changing from a hodge podge mix of computers to a standardised IBM PS/2 platform (with some specialised Mac platforms where required). Our lead Mac person was going to be doing PC support, and was sent to an IBM "Hardware familiarisation" course.

Going through the course, the IBM tech was pointing out the internals of the PS/2 (and who didn't love the IBM proprietary interfaces and buses back then?). He came to a component that he referred to as the "AMD" (no not the CPU manufacturer).

So what is the AMD? In IBM speak that was an "Air Movement Device".

My friend's reaction was "In the Apple world we call that an F-A-N"

[phatlip]

iTouch != iPod Touch

[tokenuser]

iTouch != iPod TouchPssst. It's iPod touch (lowercase 't').

[revision3fan]

The term MAC address doesn't have anything to do with the Macintosh. The Media Access Control layer refers to computer networking. It contains the Ethernet ID of a device.

[ranron]

I hate and love it when people as about the Mac Pro and assume that's the same thing as a MacBook Pro.

The term MAC address doesn't have anything to do with the Macintosh. The Media Access Control layer refers to computer networking. It contains the Ethernet ID of a device.

Well technically it's suppose to be a the Medium Access Control, but too many idiots assume that it's a reference to size, not singular/plural.

[revision3fan]

Well technically it's suppose to be a the Medium Access Control, but too many idiots assume that it's a reference to size, not singular/plural.


From the ISO OSI reference model:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Access_Control