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Ibook :Target consumer, females?
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I think the iBook looks great in white and anyway you can always customise it with Skull + Xbones stickers like I have, now that's macho! 
And if you think this one is girly what about the clamshell design, that put me off Mac laptops for ages. They were a bit hippy dippy, dontcha fink? All those wussy colours and the handle like a lady's handbag (or purse like our American friends like to say). Even when I bought my G3 iMac I bought the Snow version coz I didn't want to look like a poof! It had to be Snow or the grey colour (I can't remember it's proper name right now)
Anyhoo, that's my tuppen'orth (or $0.02 worth as they say in the US)
chief
And if you think this one is girly what about the clamshell design, that put me off Mac laptops for ages. They were a bit hippy dippy, dontcha fink? All those wussy colours and the handle like a lady's handbag (or purse like our American friends like to say). Even when I bought my G3 iMac I bought the Snow version coz I didn't want to look like a poof!
It had to be Snow or the grey colour (I can't remember it's proper name right now)Anyhoo, that's my tuppen'orth (or $0.02 worth as they say in the US)
chief
Since there has been so much talk about the Pismo on Sex in the City, I thought I'd post this.
I was watching on DVD some of the older episodes and I noticed that the glowing apple was covered up in a show. It did not make sense to me because I know that on earlier and later shows it is not covered. Also not making sense was that it was still blatently an Apple (despite the black circle of tape over it) and in a later scene Charolette is using an iBook (also moved so you could not see the logo). I found this on the net today when searching as to why this was done:
"At least once during a given episode of Sex and the City, columnist Carrie Bradshaw is depicted writing on a G3 Apple powerbook. In last weeks's epsiode, we got the usual camera-glide down over Powerbook's slim waistline but instead of the ghostwhite glowing apple-logo, there was a very obvious piece of black tape that covered the brand. Cut. In the next scene, Carrie's current lover is reading her column: we see the back of the newspaper - with a full-page Apple advert.
What happened? Have the tables turned so that even Apple have to pay to see their products appear on popular TV shows? Only this time they'd missed the deadline, so HBO decided not to show the logo. Of course, they have to rent the machines so they shoot all the scenes with Macs in them on the same day. Then the next day the check is in the mail, so they put in the advert in the column-reading-scene. - Or had HBO simply failed to pay for the right to cool-up their show with a Pismo. "
I was watching on DVD some of the older episodes and I noticed that the glowing apple was covered up in a show. It did not make sense to me because I know that on earlier and later shows it is not covered. Also not making sense was that it was still blatently an Apple (despite the black circle of tape over it) and in a later scene Charolette is using an iBook (also moved so you could not see the logo). I found this on the net today when searching as to why this was done:
"At least once during a given episode of Sex and the City, columnist Carrie Bradshaw is depicted writing on a G3 Apple powerbook. In last weeks's epsiode, we got the usual camera-glide down over Powerbook's slim waistline but instead of the ghostwhite glowing apple-logo, there was a very obvious piece of black tape that covered the brand. Cut. In the next scene, Carrie's current lover is reading her column: we see the back of the newspaper - with a full-page Apple advert.
What happened? Have the tables turned so that even Apple have to pay to see their products appear on popular TV shows? Only this time they'd missed the deadline, so HBO decided not to show the logo. Of course, they have to rent the machines so they shoot all the scenes with Macs in them on the same day. Then the next day the check is in the mail, so they put in the advert in the column-reading-scene. - Or had HBO simply failed to pay for the right to cool-up their show with a Pismo. "
hmmmmm
Just this past monday i opened the box on my 12PB rev C
having owned a total of like 6 ibooks
(startin w/ a blue one and then several different white 12")
i caught a lot of flack for having the white one over the years
but most people, i think, were making fun of the fact that it is a 12" and i'm a big guy-
(well- not that big- but it does look odd)
i do agree that the pb looks more professional- however, the ibook does look pretty sleek
my mother still has her Bronze Wallstreet- b/c she likes black so much-
i'm going to have to pass along the links to her about the painted ibooks- as i've been encouraging her to get a machine that doesn't fall apart every time i turn around (i do her tech support- currently gettin her a new keyboard after the DVD drive crapped out last month)
she likes hers b/c of the color (black) as she's purchased her entire office setup to go w/ it
black speakers, mouse, chair, lamp...etc
she does like white more- however the ibook white doesn't match the white of her desk or her walls- and she 'simply cannot' deal with that.
go figure
as for the gender specificness of the pb vs ibook
i really hate 2 say this- but that's pretty superficial- it's whats inside that counts-
@ least that's what i've always thought (no wonder i have no pretty friends...)
Just this past monday i opened the box on my 12PB rev C
having owned a total of like 6 ibooks
(startin w/ a blue one and then several different white 12")
i caught a lot of flack for having the white one over the years
but most people, i think, were making fun of the fact that it is a 12" and i'm a big guy-
(well- not that big- but it does look odd)
i do agree that the pb looks more professional- however, the ibook does look pretty sleek
my mother still has her Bronze Wallstreet- b/c she likes black so much-
i'm going to have to pass along the links to her about the painted ibooks- as i've been encouraging her to get a machine that doesn't fall apart every time i turn around (i do her tech support- currently gettin her a new keyboard after the DVD drive crapped out last month)
she likes hers b/c of the color (black) as she's purchased her entire office setup to go w/ it
black speakers, mouse, chair, lamp...etc
she does like white more- however the ibook white doesn't match the white of her desk or her walls- and she 'simply cannot' deal with that.
go figure
as for the gender specificness of the pb vs ibook
i really hate 2 say this- but that's pretty superficial- it's whats inside that counts-
@ least that's what i've always thought (no wonder i have no pretty friends...)
was also gonna mention
CJ on West Wing sports a 15" PB- @ least she used 2- not sure if she still does-
she's very 'professional'
meanwhile the males in the show all sport desktops or various PC laptops
i really cannot picture her using an ibook - even though much of her work on the show is extremely feminist in nature
CJ on West Wing sports a 15" PB- @ least she used 2- not sure if she still does-
she's very 'professional'
meanwhile the males in the show all sport desktops or various PC laptops
i really cannot picture her using an ibook - even though much of her work on the show is extremely feminist in nature
IMO, the powder white powerbooks seems to geared to women. Me and my girl was CompUSA, and the first thing she said when she saw the ibook was, "this is the cutest notebook i've ever seen." Seems like everyone that see a iBook for the first time has this reaction. So i'm saving up for a PB.
On the sopranos apple computers were mention a few times while aj i think thats his name(tonys son) was using a powerbook or an ibook) the logo was clearly showing.I thought apple didnt advertise as much but everytime i turn hbo on i see someone using one.The last episode of the sapronos tony son went to a career counciler was interested in the field of event planning.It must have been an ibook that he was using.
nyprospect said:
maybe all of the execs at HBO fuel their inspiration off of macs to make their emmy winning decisions! seriously, SJP really does look like a powerbook user, pismo, ti, or aluminum. it suits her perfectly.
adamjay said:
I'd venture to say that a woman who thinks a man with a hummer attractive is really being lured by the fact that he can afford a hummer--and the gas it costs to keep it running. Meaning he can probably afford to buy her equally expensive, useless stuff like a chinchilla scarf.
But really, I don't think men buy Hummers to get the girl; they buy them to show off to other guys, to prove themselves a dominant male. To say, "I'm bigger and meaner and tougher than you SUV driving p*ssies!"
This is pecking order we're talking about. Who can slam dunk the basketball. Attracting the opposite sex doesn't even enter into it.
nyprospect said:
This season he was also carrying an ipod with him just about everywhere he went.