Black Is The New Beige

An anonymous submitter writes: "Spurred by Apple's innovations and the dangers of commoditization, computer makers are finally moving beyond beige. Rather than exploring diverse ideas, however, they have made a decision reminiscent of the fashionistas: black is the new beige (a NYTimes story)."

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[Oily Tuna]

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Apple has the right idea

[PhysicsGenius]

Apple's slogan "Design Before Function" is taking the scientific world by storm as well as the consumer electronics world. Our 1980's era synchrotron was a bulky, wire-strewn behemoth. But a couple of years ago we bought the iAccel which comes in 5 delightful shades including Peach.

The new machine isn't quite as "high-end" as the old one was: we can only accelerate particles to 1/100th the speed of light. But at least we don't have a beige monster to deal with--and I hated tripping over those cords all the time.

"black is the new beige"

[somethingwicked]

Can't we all just be color-blind?

I truly feel that /. does not need to get into race issues...

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