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My MacBook can do STUNTS!!!!!
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You probably renamed it. I don't remember mine saying that, and I would remember since it does bother me.
Wikipedia:
A hard disk drive (HDD), commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk or fixed disk drive
Early HDDs had removable media; however, an HDD today is typically a sealed unit (except for a filtered vent hole to equalize air pressure) with fixed media.[2]
A HDD is a rigid-disk drive, although it is probably never referred to as such. By way of comparison, a so-called "floppy" drive (more formally, a diskette drive) has a disc that is flexible. Originally, the term "hard" was temporary slang, substituting "hard" for "rigid", before these drives had an established and universally-agreed-upon name. Some time ago, IBM's internal company term for an HDD was "file".
HDDs (introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM accounting computer[3]) were originally developed for use with computers, see History of hard disk drives.
In the 21st century, applications for HDDs have expanded beyond computers to include digital video recorders, digital audio players, personal digital assistants, digital cameras and video game consoles. In 2005 the first mobile phones to include HDDs were introduced by Samsung and Nokia.[4] The need for large-scale, reliable storage, independent of a particular device, led to the introduction of configurations such as RAID arrays, network attached storage (NAS) systems and storage area network (SAN) systems that provide efficient and reliable access to large volumes of data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harddrive
High-definition (HD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_definition
Almost every Macintosh ever shipped (and possibly every Macintosh ever shipped) with an internal hard drive has had it's hard drive named Macintosh HD by default.
Just to make sure you're fully aware that you're wrong, here is a direct link to a Leopard screen shot from Apple's web site:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery02_20071016.jpg
Take note of what the hard drive is named in that Finder window.
Here are a few more:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery01_20071016.jpg
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery06_20071016.jpg
Here it is in Mac OS 7.6:
http://main.system7today.com/images/helpcentershots/gaugepro.jpg
You should also learn not to take Wikipedia's definitions quite so literally.
Here is a web site named after it:
http://www.macintoshhd.org/
More fun just googling around for additional ways to show you're wrong:
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/start/pctomac/machd.html
http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10563
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89580
Here's all 186,000 results for "Macintosh HD"
http://www.google.com/search?q="Macintosh+HD"&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&start=0&sa=N
In conclusion, please devote your energy to something more important, like people spelling MAC in uppercase letters, or capitalizing the I in names like Iwork, Itunes, and Ilife, or doing really dumb things like MacIntosh I-Book. And yes, you just got pwned.
Some people like the default name. It's one of the few remaining connections to Macs of old days.
And that's why I keep it that way
even though i was born in 1993, i wasn't around that long.
lol Wow seriously. Though you did chastise him about 'wasting his time proving people wrong' about this kind of stuff yet you just spent quite a nice amount of time on that post to prove him that HE is wrong about the same thing
Anyway, yeah this got pretty off topic.
Well, so this is my family macbook, its a brand new 2.2ghz 2gb, 120gb, whitebook. i take it to school, since, well, i cant take my 24" imac
so under the tables, there is a metal rim, and while i was using it on my lap, the macbook just got attracted to the metal rim!!! and god damn the magnets in the macbooks lid are VERY powerful, it caught it from very far, and i even had trouble to take the macbook off the rim of the table!! it was pretty cool, so i took a picture of it hanging from the table, check pix below:
sorry crappy pix, quick cell pix
Dude! I am so totally doing that when I get over to Dad's today!
Perfect position for using while on a beanbag chair! How sturdy is it when attached? Does it wobble a lot?
Since its such a common (and very true) thing, it didn't take me any real time or effort at all.
http://www.apple.com and http://www.google.com were all I needed.
Well, I'll hold it first, just to see how strong it is. Then we'll move on to the gnarly hang time
Well, I'll hold it first, just to see how strong it is. Then we'll move on to the gnarly hang time
ok, just to let you know, they table i did it on had a ledge in the metal, I think some of part in helping it hang was the fact that the ledges that stick out of the macbook carried it.
Well, my table is exactly like that, like a carbon copy of it, so I'm all set.
Be careful. lol.
You obviously haven't seen my iPod, good sir. "Careful" is one of the terms strangely absent from my vocabulary, among "stop that" and "do your homework".
I'm still new to Macs, I got one in November, and so I didn't know Apple does this. I've been using PCs all my life, and building them, fixing, etc and the tech-y PC people have always referred harddrives to HDDs. All my computer teachers have done this, and when I corrected people on other PC forums, people agreed with me. So I guess it's a PC thing to say HDD, and Apple wanted to be different from everyone so they decided their way of saying it would be HD.
But I still think it should be HDD cause its the high definition era, and it just causes confusion to some.
You can say we're both right then, thanks for your pictures.
But I still think it should be HDD cause its the high definition era, and it just causes confusion to some.
You can say we're both right then, thanks for your pictures.