I was just at Circuit City, and was looking at some laptops. All I can say is...I'll never buy one. They are so ugly its not even funny. All of the stickers and horrible case designs. All I can say is...I can't wait to get my MBP! Apple FTW.
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PC laptops are UGLY
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agreed. my folks bought a cheapo acer last year (they claim that macs are expensive and for nerds), and it looks bad, ports are all over the place and is very tacky looking. and the stickers don't help either.
macbook for the win.
Let your parents know they got it backwards...i.e. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, who is the nerd?
For the most part I agree, but the new Dells look like an improvement. In fact, the XPS M1330 doesn't look bad at all. To each their own, I guess.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1330?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1330?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
though. 
The XPS M1330 looks good. Laptop designs don't impress me much until I see them in person, and this laptop looks even better in person. My friend just got it last week, and he loves the computer (but not Vista).
Honestly this Toshiba R500 is not half bad and > 2lbs. I find many PC designs to be less than innovative, but then again I find myself to be bias and I'm ok to admit it.
I thinks PC laptops look better and better. You can thank Apple for that.
But most are just pretenders to the throne of delicious perfection.
But most are just pretenders to the throne of delicious perfection.
The look of the 15" and 17" PBs, and the MBPs that came after are starting to look stale. There....I said it.
My mom's HP dv2000 notebook is actually pretty slick - it's high-gloss black and silver. Aside from all the ports everywhere, it's a very nice design IMHO.
that's not very much, because we all know BG has 0 cool
True and 349867057406854809760547690574695406870547 x 0 = 0.
How dare nickster9224 claim that SJ has 0 cool in this thread!
Look at this beauty! how can you say this is ugly?
This could win awards for industrial design easy...
This could win awards for industrial design easy...
:Hops in the wayback machine:
I had a Dell Inspiron 4100 at the end of High School/college. I loved it then (was still a super windows buff), but was it ever ugly. I remember seeing the 'customizable' wrist rests and LCD back, but they all seemed so cheezy.
The thing that irritated me wasn't the looks so much as it was the quality. Overall the laptop lasted barely two years as stuff kept on breaking. The casing cracked and things came off. (To be fair, I was rougher with it then my Powerbook/MacBook Pro. Young and wreckless )
The laptop got very hot, so all the rubber foot pads would fall off because the glue would deteriorate in the heat. The removable ram plate cover had a black paint finish that just started to peel from the heat as well.
These were minor compared to the real problem. Case Design. The mouse buttons and trackpad area were too high. They physically touched the screen when closed and ended up destroying the screen. Physical indentations that make the screen appear white in that area.
I must say, while some people do get issues with their macs, I think the pc notebook folks get it worse, both in looks and quality. >.>
I had a Dell Inspiron 4100 at the end of High School/college. I loved it then (was still a super windows buff), but was it ever ugly. I remember seeing the 'customizable' wrist rests and LCD back, but they all seemed so cheezy.
The thing that irritated me wasn't the looks so much as it was the quality. Overall the laptop lasted barely two years as stuff kept on breaking. The casing cracked and things came off. (To be fair, I was rougher with it then my Powerbook/MacBook Pro. Young and wreckless
)The laptop got very hot, so all the rubber foot pads would fall off because the glue would deteriorate in the heat. The removable ram plate cover had a black paint finish that just started to peel from the heat as well.
These were minor compared to the real problem. Case Design. The mouse buttons and trackpad area were too high. They physically touched the screen when closed and ended up destroying the screen. Physical indentations that make the screen appear white in that area.
I must say, while some people do get issues with their macs, I think the pc notebook folks get it worse, both in looks and quality. >.>
