Macintel or Mactel?

Apple-Manufactured Macs

Official Intel Macs

Real Intel Macs

Legal Intel Macs

Definately Macintel

IMO, "Intel Mac" is what you buy from Apple, "MacIntel" is what you build youself...

I refer to my machine as "MacIntel", "Hackintosh", and (my own creation) "PowerHack P4"

I think Rogue Amoeba software got it right-- ICBMs. As in, Intel Chip Based Macintosh.

http://rogueamoeba.com/universal/

[No affiliation with 'em (not even a customer), just giving credit where it's due.]

Macintel does it for me...just seems to roll off the tounge a bit easier than Mactel. I use that and "Hackintosh" to tell the difference now.

It's *Intel Mac* for me. I like names to be precise and descriptive. Depending on the emphasis, "Macintel" sounds like a Scottish gentleman, a character from a kiddy story or something you buy at that burger place.

Haha, I hate to go against most replies here, but I'll always call it the Mactel project. Although it suggest Intel, it's a little less strong of a connection to Intel, but more of an assoication with the x86 platform as a whole.

OSX can run on AMD chips, too .

Thanks!

cmoski

hmm, Mactel seems like Mattel or a phone thingy

Macintel is pretty descriptive, an intel box that has been "mac'ed", gets my vote.

a universal mac = Umac? more than 1 are Umax??

ICBM refers to both kinds, Apple-made and home-made.

iClone?

intelipod?

PowerClone?

PowerMaxxuss?

Hackintel?

I prefer Hackintosh, which I will call mine when I finish night school at Bofors U.

I have the parts below, 40 Gb of files, but no running OSX86 as yet.

I *really* enjoy this forum and appreciate all the people who give so much (the faculty!)

Thanks all!!!

Haha, I hate to go against most replies here, but I'll always call it the Mactel project. Although it suggest Intel, it's a little less strong of a connection to Intel, but more of an assoication with the x86 platform as a whole.

 

OSX can run on AMD chips, too .

 

Thanks!

cmoski

Yeah Mactel is what I'm going with. I'm too lazy for macintel.

Seattle, WA

Nice.

Isn't Apple refers to their Intel Mac line as Mactel?

To the purist it has to be MACBETH, as it is a bit of a tragedy... Dell D400 / 1.4GHz / 1Gb

Since there is also talks with AMD, I don't think that Intel should be part of the name at all, I believe something along the lines of MacPC or if you are so interested in classifying them...

inMac

aMac

Mac G6 (Intel and AMD Based)