Mac Abbreviation and Jargon Glossary Thread

[elmer]

FW = Firewire
AE = Airport Extreme or Airport Express
PB = PowerBook
PM = PowerMac
Dualie = Dual Processor PowerMac

update:
MDD = Mirror Drive Door (last revs of PowerMac G4)
Ti = Titanium
Al = Aluminum

[thejst]

X- mac os X
TiBook- Titanium PowerBook
AlBook- Aluminum PowerBook
M$- Derogatory Microsoft Shorthand
SJ- Steve Jobs

[thejst]

G3, G4, G5- Macintosh IBM/Motorola processors

[Chealion]

thejst - The G4 is actually a Motorola processor, while the G3 was made by both IBM and Motorola.

[thejst]

Thanks Chealion- I edited my post accordingly.

[PosterBoy]

Mac = short form of "Macintosh"
MAC = Media Access Control

[MacDoc]

Dual boot - boots OS9 and OS X

Single boot - boots OS X only runs OS 9 in CLassic mode only

SODimm - for powerbooks iBooks and G4 iMacs -
two basic flavours PC 133 ( PC 100 and PC 133 ) 32/64/128/256/512

and DDR (2100, 2700, 3200) 128/256/512/1 gig

Dimm - for desktops again two basic flavours as above ( there are earlier ones but not for this thread. Sizes also as above.

Bottom line with RAM - ask carefully it's complicated.

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PATA - more often ATA - all Macs from G3 up
3.5" version for desktops -40 to 400 gig
2.5" versions for laptops 20-100 gig

SATA - newer standard drive for G5s - desktop only 80 gig to 400

RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives......often just called an array.
Several levels but most often

Level 0 for speed ( two or more drives striped for speed shows one volume cumulative size of drives added together )

Level 1 for Mirroring ( two drives with the same data shows as single volume size of one drive

There are other levels.
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SD = Superdrive - Apple ROM version of a DVDRW
Combo - Reads DVDs writes and reads CDs.

Wallstreet - early Powerbook scsi ports no USB - various models
Lombard - first PB with USB - also has scsi 333 and 400
Pismo - lookalike to Lombard - very different - FW and USB 400 and 500
Clamshell - cute colourful iBooks - various features ( some with FW all with USB )
White or Dual USB iBooks - after the Clamshells - all with FW and all with dual USB

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If errors in this PM me I'll edit.

[ncoffey]

Dual boot could also be OS X/Ubuntu Linux. (Or other distributions) Although I would imagine this is a bit rarer than running Linux on Intel/AMD based systems.

[MacDoc]

Yeah I think the thinking is common usage tho

[scootsandludes]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by MacDoc
	RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives......often just called an array. Several levels but most often

I didn't know that's what it stood for. Are there any other funny abbreviations out there?

I can only think of one other:
TWAIN- Technology Without An Interesting Name.

vince