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Macbooks are versioned. The versions people refer to are 'mid 2007', 'late 2008', etc.

iPods are also versioned. People refer to their '4G iPod shuffle' or their '2G iPod touch'

Right, customers call them that, but Apple calls their products iPods and MacBooks when they are selling them. The names are simply "iPod", etc. The hardware revision number is only used when need to disambiguate.

But that's not the actual product name, as used by Apple publicly.

Er...

http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbook

And as another example: http://support.apple.com/manuals/#ipodnano

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