LOL, an "Innovation company"! Please!
Anyway, yes, they design their computers. But are you seriously thinking that that is _defense_ for the poor engineering?
For the record, she's very lucky to have one of the few surviving ones.
I don't care if a computer looks "boring". It's a tool. And it should be rugged, unless you you just want it to lay on said coffee table as a coffee table book looking "neat".
What? Who said that? But you do know, that it's not the entire notebook which is done like that, right? You can take the bottom off, so it's not a one-piece.
Are you done with your strawman?
It revolves around what can be done within constraints. Good engineering will make beautiful working solutions. Just slapping parts together is not good engineering as you seem to imply.
Take a look at the millau bridge:
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Sweet, isn't it?
The thing is, the Millau bridge amongst many other things aren't exactly done by thinking "oh, it hasn't been done before, thus it cannot be done". That, at best, is ignorance to what engineering is, and at worst a full on strawman argument.
Ah, you weren't done with the strawman argumentation. See above.
Magic? Innovation? Are other companies not innovating, and are you seriously suggesting that on the laptop front Apple has "innovated" much or jumped much "into the future"? If anything, they throttling back to the lowest common denominator. The ditching of firewire and removal of choice isn't exactly what I call "innovation", nor "a springboard to the future".
Wow. What a twisted way of saying that they will disregard the demands and basic premises for good engineering to cater to the people who buy stuff on looks alone.
Ah, yes, it's "innovative" designing a laptop that looks thinner than it is, introducing a shape that makes good engineering an impossibility, resulting in numerous workarounds such as a mechanical plastic lid for the plugs and core shutdowns.
Sigh. The stench of fanboyism is becoming too rancid for me.
So let me guess you know more about engineering than the good ol' folks at Apple?