MacBook
nounEtymology A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.
1
A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.
- Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.2006, Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2, page 135:
- The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.2007, Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 52:
3 more examples
- In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times:
- I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.2008, Stephen James, David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 114:
- 2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project, National Public Radio Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook Air, and he was trying to save the MacBook Air from falling […]