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Porsche Designs a Laptop
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that BestBuy is selling a porsche designed widescreen ultra thin laptop the looks almost exactly like a Tibook. Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper. Ah, I guess that the TiBook is no longer a status symbol if you can run Windows on it. It has all the trimmings, like those "made for windows 2k stickers" that get the screen all nasty when you close it."
A post like this is mind numbing when it's so blatantly and ignorantly bashing windows. I'm really disappointed that /. would even take the time to post such a bias article.
/. post something that isn't moronic Anti-Microsoft propaganda, or even perhaps *gasp* play devils advocate against Linux!
For once I would like to see the
Thats even a more retarded statement! Man, you guys are in the running for the most ignorand and uneducated pro linux argument ever!
Because you bought yourself a shiney iBook and want to cheerlead for Apple at every opportunity.
I'm sure there were other submissions of this story without the 'MS is gay!' dipshit comments. But Taco chose this one. Which shows simultaneously what an objective "journalist" he is, and how he's an insightful "computer expert".
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
It wasn't that different not long ago. Like it or not, most Linux fanboys are all about booting to Linux for the style and racy thrill of it, but when it comes time to do something they actually know how to do, they rush back to that familiar cloud bootup screen. Sad, really.
I've never seen a "Porsche designed" item that looked nice and made me want to touch it. They are just sculptures that are created simply to make you think of the designer. Ego, not function.
Porsche Design seems to favor large hunks of stainless steel, sharp angles, and whenever possible, exposed rivets and screws, to give things an "industrial" look. Why would you design something for human use that looks mechanical, cold, and uninviting?
If they want to even get near Apple's ballpark, they have to get rid of the angular bevels on the top of the case and the sharp corners (unless of course they don't want people to pick it up).
I see they made the frame around the monitor a little wider than every other laptop these days, probably so they could show off some nice fat screws! Hopefully those screw holes are finished so you don't catch your shirt (or skin) on the edge.
And putting functional buttons on the outside of a closed laptop is dubious. Again, subconciously, you're afraid to pick it up a certain way, because you might start the CD player. It's not closed and protected, even when the top is done.
That two-tone color scheme looks plain awful. Black keyboards are hard to see, and especially on a laptop, some keys are in different places than a full-size keyboard, and you need to see them clearly. Maybe Porsche just designed the top?
Yup, this laptop just screams "look at me. and then leave me right here".
I'll take the thinkpad next to it, thanks. It probably has better specs too.
Or...
The point is...Apple sucks, they don't let you do things your way, they make you do things their way. Besides, most Mac fanatics are fags, and I wouldn't really want to be associated with them.
Strange, I just had to reinstall a W2K Pro machine because of registry corruption. How is that stable? (Okay, it had been running about 1,5 years continuously) Windows XP (anything) is bloated, I wouldn't dare to install it on anything less than a 1Gz CPU with at least 256Meg RAM (and that's barely enough to *do* anything).
Strangely enough Mac OS X runs fine on my 600Mhz iBook with 384Meg RAM. About 112Meg of that is used, and I have open Mail, two browsers (Chimera and Mozilla), Terminal, SetiAtHome, CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor and Stickies.
From experience I know that a W2K Pro installation boots up and idles at 95Meg RAM. Throw in some apps and you're memory I fast filled.
So what exactly is "bloat" to you?
Great... I know those Lifebooks, but they came out about a year ago. Most Fujitsu lifebooks before that were not that pretty. How long is the TiBook out? At *least* two years, if not longer.
(Disclaimer: I actually work for Fujitsu... I refused their laptop and bought me an Apple instead.... Yes, I am hated by management)
The default functionality is inconvenient for YOU. It's not inconvenient for others, or it wouldn't be like that.
I'd also like to note that I tried to recreate your problem, and I can't get it to do that on my XP box. Maybe you should run XP on something slightly faster than your dad's 486.
I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you.
And "real" being defined by what? Photoshop? Cause that's pretty much the only "real" work being done on Macs these days.
The REAL work is done on Windows and Unix machines. Last I checked, Altera didn't make a Mac version of Max+Plus II or any of their other tools. Same goes for other high end software like that from Synopsys, Ansoft, Maplesoft (although you CAN get Mathematica and MatLAB for Mac) and others.
In the high-end scientific/mathematics world, Macs don't cut it yet. Maybe now that OSX is out, they'll port their Unix software over, but who knows..