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It's pretty damn easy to prove that Apple ripped HP off. However, Toshiba did the edge-to-edge shiny black bezel with a silver laptop back when Apple was still making PowerBook G4s.

The older Voodoo Envy looked nothing like the macbook or powerbook and was actually very well designed.

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Wow, that Voodoo looks pretty sick! Nice job to the industrial design team on that one.

As for this thread's copy-cat: it looks thicker than an MBP... there's a bit of a shadow under the laptop that makes me think that the underside is curved-in to give the impression of it being thinner.

If the specs are better than the current MBP, I might just jump into that, pending the ability to hackintosh it.
 
Yea, the old voodoo machines were pretty nice looking. Too bad they're hard to find these days! Tell ya the truth, I'm a bit sad that HP killed the Voodoo brand with the newer Envy machines.

I am really leaning towards buying an i5 envy 15 right now, was using one again today and while the trackpad isn't perfect, the build quality rawks my socks. >>
 
When the MBP unibody came out everyone complained that it looked exactly like the HPs. People yelled, oh em gee how could Apple do that, such a blatant rip-off. Blah blah.

Silver and black is in, people like it. Apple won't be suing anyone over the "their" look being copied.

People have short memories, and on this forum the information tends to flow in favor of Apple.

Didn't anyone tell you guys? Nobody goes full retard.
 
Apple doesnt own a patent on rectangular aluminum devices.

I admit its clearly based on the Macbook design but meh, if it sells well for Shuttle theyd be stupid not to do it.
 
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