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new macbooks! >> suggestion: reorganize the forums a bit
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How about this:
breaking the forums up into PPC Macs forums and Intel Macs forums.
Breakdown:
PPC: -PowerMac, eMac, iMac, Mac Mini, PowerBook, iBook, whatever else
Intel Mac: -iMac, -Mac Mini, -MacBook / MacBook Pro
this would make more sense for these forums heading into the future, because there's a true split now -- current or recent buyers with Intel computers, and older users with PPCs. either way, for the most part, forum readers will fit into one category or the other, and don't need to read postings that fit into the other category.
does this make sense?
Love,
Yakov.
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Why not just add the new "MacBooks" under the iBooks? They look alike anyways. Just a thought.
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We're working something out.
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looks are deceiving. MacBooks look like iBooks but they have a lot more in common with MacBook Pros than they do with iBooks. It seems silly to separate topics based on the computer's color and size, rather than system architecture.
good to know that changes are in the works... (looks like this won't take as long as it took to make an iPod forum!  )
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Just so it's on record: today's addition of MacBook to the iBook forum was done by someone unknown who ignored the discussion in the Mods forum.
I personally am advocating a unified Notebooks forum, since the hardware differences among Apple's laptops have been blurry for years, and the issues users face are essentially identical.
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Originally Posted by tooki
I personally am advocating a unified Notebooks forum, since the hardware differences among Apple's laptops have been blurry for years, and the issues users face are essentially identical.
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Here's another vote to merge the laptop forums.
The specifications between a macbook and a macbook pro are so small any issues a MBP is going to have may very well carry over to a MB.
Also in general if a person has problems with his iBook, someone has found a solution to it, regardless if that someone has a powerbook or a Macbook pro.
If one laptop forum is too large or unwieldy then segregate by cpu makes sense, i.e., mactel laptops, ppc laptops.
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I'm personally in favor of unifying MacBook/MB Pro in one forum, and iBook/PowerBook in another. It seems like putting them all together would be unwieldy, but the MacBook line should be together. After all, Apple's trying to blur the lines between the two, so one would assume that this board should do the same. Also, the two are technically similar enough that advice to owners of one may be useful to owners of the other.
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I don't see what advantage there would be of segregating the PPC and Intel Macs, since they behave essentially identically.
Either way, that's not practical, because the decision was already made (by whom, I know not) to mix PPC and Intel Macs in the iMac, iBook/MacBook, and PowerBook/MBP forums. I know that none of us are gonna go through the last 4 months worth of threads and separate the threads by CPU.
tooki
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Originally Posted by TheoCryst
I'm personally in favor of unifying MacBook/MB Pro in one forum, and iBook/PowerBook in another ... Apple's trying to blur the lines between the two, so one would assume that this board should do the same.
This kind of forward thinking makes sense now, let alone in a year's time when iBooks and PowerBooks are even further off our radars.
Organize a "MacBook/MacBook Pro" forum and a "Legacy Laptop" forum for older hardware.
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We can't do that, because the PPC and Intel Macs have already been intermingled, and we don't have the time to manually check thousands of threads to see how to split them up. Regardless, there's no point: from almost any standpoint, there is nothing to gain by separating out the new machines.
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I third or fourth or whatever the motion for a unified laptop forum. And really, how is it any skin off anyone's back if topics about PPC ones are included among the MacBook [Pro] topics? People will be using PowerBooks and iBooks for years to come, and the difference will be pretty obvious from thread titles.
I've actually been waiting for the single laptop forum to ask a particular question for which I want as broad an audience as possible.
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