All right, you asked for it. Get comfy, this is going to be a long one, but worth the read. BTW, I'm very much enjoying this discussion, so don't take anything I say as though I'm irritated or anything.
The exact quote is, "The 600 series had rubber skin; we spotted them easy, but these are new, they look human..."
He didn't say, "The 600 series had rubber skin and were as big as the Incredible Hulk; we spotted them easy 100 yards away."
"It's an infiltration unit," Kyle said. You know what the definition of infiltrate is, right? Here is dictionary.com's 4th definition.
4. to pass a small number of (soldiers, spies, or the like) into a territory or organization clandestinely and with hostile or subversive intent-
How the hell is the McG 600 going to do that? No friggin' way. But according to Kyle, the 600 was also an infiltration unit. The only difference mentioned between the 600 and the 800 is rubber skin which didn't allow the Terminators to effectively enough do their job, and real skin grown for the cyborgs (800s) which was so effective it that could only be spotted as a fake by dogs.
I mean, seriously, you watched the origin movie, right?
First, T3 doesn't factor in for two reasons. It was never part of Cameron's vision, and the timeline had already been altered, so that has nothing to do with Kyle's account of things, or my argument based on his account. So, yeah, a big "nya nya" to T-850s, but I can accept it for the alternate timeline.
I don't have a good excuse for why Cameron went from 600 to 800 to 1000, but he, the man behind the vision, did. I'm just going off of what info he has provided. Ford doesn't go around naming their trucks the F-150, the F-151, F-152, F-153, do they? No, they go 150, 250, 350, 450, all the way up to 800 (oddly enough).
https://www.fleet-trucks.com/ And don't argue that just because Ford went every hundred that Cyberdyne must. Manufacturers only go with the number representing significantly newer, or different version. They don't mass produce every incarnation in the design's evolutionary process. When a significant change is made, you call it a new series.
Aside from that, Skynet didn't design the Terminators, it just built them and gave them the AI to operate effectively. In the original timeline, Cyberdyne, run by humans, designed them before Skynet became self aware. Otherwise it would not be refered to by Kyle as, "
Cyberdyne Systems Model 101". It would likely have no designation at all if Skynet came up with it. It would just be another Hunter Killer like the Tank or Aerial, but perhaps refered to as the humanoid HK. And if you doubt that logic, remember that Cyberdyne had the Endo arm and the chip. They could easily have come up with it for future use as a super soldier before Judgement Day, but not been able to make it work. Skynet would have been able to though, and it did for use as infiltrators (and field soldiers closer to the end of the war when the resistance was getting
physically close to winning).
One of the things I did really like about T3 in regard to the original timeline is that it had a deleted scene that suggests that the Terminator was in the prototype stages. Remember the deleted scene with Sgt. Candy (Arnold)? Alternate timeline, but it could have happened a lot like that.
Im learning.
I love the connor. The diff between the t600 and t700 is the t600 is a tank 
