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When Beige Won't Do
An anonymous reader writes "The days of the beige box are behind us, as computing becomes ever more a consumer electronics field. A New York Times article, hosted at News.com, discusses the newest trends in moving away from standard beige for PCs and laptops. Designer colors, artfully designed notebooks, and personalization are just some of the options outfits are now offering." From the article: "Apple Computer is widely credited with long ago shattering conventions that had for years dictated how a computer had to feel and look. Windows-based personal computers generally lagged far behind in fusing function with form in ways that consumers found exciting. But that is changing, executives from mainstay computer companies like Dell and Toshiba say."
I'm way ahead, I already use retro-themed hardware, it will be hot in 10 years!
Any color you want as long as it's black.
Then I looked it up and I remembered . . . and realized that with VOIP and cell phones abundant these days, a box to steal someone else's phone line really isn't all that useful anymore . . .
Man, I feel old.
The 90ies called, they want their story about nonbeige computers back!
Consumers will buy PC's based on what color neons are in the case. Me, I don't even have sidepanels on my desktops and I've considered not bothering with chassis alltogether.
I like beige so much I'm still using an old compaq-mouse from the early 90's. It weighs about as much as five optical mice, and it only has two buttons and no wheels or any of that fancy stuff. Not to mention it's beige.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
You didn't get it, true hackers simply do not put their machines into cases.
Are you trying to say that Apple didn't invent the non-beige computer case? Clearly the SGI indigo or onyx computers would only came in beige, right? What's next, are you going to tell me Apple didn't create the first mp3 player with their ultra-revolutionary ipod?
I would similarly like to state a set of opinions.
1. Taco Bell should only serve food products made of mexicans
2. All countries should have electrical fences around them. Someone wishing to immigrate are allowed to attempt to climb this fence, but if they are electrocuted in the process then anyone passing by in the receiving country can help themselves to their clothes or anything in their pockets
3. We should build underwater nuclear reactors since all humans are on land
4. Anyone assassinating a president or someone in a senior government post should then inherit that position
I am interested in your views but please don't turn it into a big debate or argument
Also, I recognise that this will of course be modded flamebait but I feel compelled to share the truth regardless
Goodbye beige. Hello Brown
But surely a Mac is a PC since it is both personal and a computer...
HAHA! That'll get em...
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
My Thinkpad if you removed the keyboard, monitor, battery would not be any bigger than its power supply.
In the movie Brazil the tv adverts are for the latest ventilation ducts in amazing new colours, rush out and buy them. It was deeply depressing then and still is now.
I can beat that. I had an old Toshiba Tx000 laptop (2000? I forget exactly what model). It had a 486 at a blazing 20 MHz, and one of the previous owners had trippled the RAM to 12 MB. What color was it? Beige, of course.
Sunwalker Dezco for Warchief in 2016
Cut down on your fiber (fibre?) a bit. You'll be fine.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!