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Originally Posted by FFL
It may indeed be "silly", but it is in fact true.
Try to find the word "laptop" here
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
or on any of its sub-pages.
For bonus points - search the Apple Support site for "notebook" and then for "laptop", and compare the results.
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Sure, but type "laptop" into apple.com's search field, and both of their lines show up as top results. If they do avoid the word "laptop", it's probably rather because of asinine class-action lawsuits, rather than because they feel there's something wrong with the word. Sure, the bottoms of MacBooks and MacBook Pros indeed aren't designed heat-wise to work well on a lap, but neither are those of just about any other portable computer on the market, unless you specifically go out of your way to look for low-heat output components, such as perhaps in subnotebooks.
To me, laptop and notebook are synonymical, except (obviously) for non-computer contexts. Everything else is pedantry.