Is "Notebook" out of date? Apple changed the official description of MacBook to "Laptop"

CTOnews.com, Oct. 8-Apple seems to be making changes to some of its brands, specifically what to call its MacBook products. Before that, Apple officially called MacBook Air and MacBook Pro "Mac notebooks" or just "notebooks", a relatively outdated term in the notebook industry. But now Apple is switching to the term "Laptop", with new terms used in product pages in Apple's online store, articles in Apple support, and even the Mac operating system.

Over the past week, 9to5Mac has noticed that Apple-supported articles have been updated to use "Mac laptops" or "laptops" instead of "notebooks", and dozens of articles have been updated, at least on the US website.

Apple's online store also seems to have been updated, and many pages in the Mac section now use "laptop" instead of "notebooks."

In addition, for macOS Ventura, which is still in the testing stage, when setting up a new MacBook Air / MacBook Pro, it will also be called "so-and-so's laptop (Laptop)" by default, rather than "so-and-so's MacBook".

CTOnews.com learned that Apple has not officially acknowledged the change in wording, and although we all translate Laptop and Notebook into laptops in Chinese, according to 9to5Mac, Apple's change is a step in the right direction. Nowadays, it is out of date to call notebooks "Notebook", and other PC manufacturers now often refer to their laptops as "Laptop".