Apple Starts Calling the MacBook a “Laptop” Because God Knows Why

If you’ve been part of the Apple ecosystem for a long time, you probably know already that the Cupertino-based tech giant calls the MacBook a notebook.

This is the moniker the company has been using for a very long time, even though, let’s be honest about it, the notebook designation is kind of old-school.

It turns out that Apple has finally noticed the transition to laptops as a generic designation for devices with this form factor, so the company has quietly switched from notebooks to laptops pretty much everywhere.

9to5mac writes that Apple is now calling the MacBook a laptop on support documents, Apple Online Store product page, and even within the operating system powering the device. In some cases, however, Apple calls the Mac “a laptop computer.”

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