Vizio Plans To Undercut The Market For All-In-One PCs

TV maker Vizio is famous for undercutting competitors' prices on LCD TVs; now, the company has released word that it will introduce a new line of budget computers, and next week will be showing them off at CES. Bloomberg reports that the company won't yet disclose actual prices (the kind with numbers), but says instead only that they will be at a "price that just doesn’t seem possible." As the article mentions, the all-in-one desktop machines shown look a lot like Apple products; BetaNews has pictures, and ominously mentions Apple's tendency to sue over similar-looking products.

Comments

Re:it has rounded corners

[Overly Critical Guy]

Sigh...it's obviously more than just "rounded rectangles" that makes it similar-looking to existing Apple products. The keyboard looks exactly like Apple's flat keyboard, and the trackpad is the Magic Trackpad that Apple started offering a year or so ago. When you've got obvious rip-offs on the market--like this Samsung Windows laptop that looks like a MacBook Pro and even uses an Apple logo for the default account avatar to resemble the OS X boot up sequence in order to confuse customers--it's not at all surprising that Apple is going to be proactive in protecting its design work. But sites like Slashdot are full of Apple-haters who don't want to give the company credit for anything, because Apple is popular. That doesn't change the fact that when Apple introduces a popular product, a bunch of of competing products start to look almost exactly like it--as if there's no other way to design a PC, tablet, phone, etc. once Apple introduces a particular design for them.

Re:it has rounded corners

[Ayanami_R]

What design work? Apples products are nothing but "plain Jane" design.

Re:The Curse of the Rounded Rectangle

[EdIII]

Ohh, I don't think speed is an issue. These are Apple users. Hunt and Peck is plenty of speed. Apple users tend to be the more artistic types, so the mouse if far more important for things like graphic arts, etc. If they are journalists, that just involves copy and paste mostly so there are hot keys for that.

Anyone else have problems with ports?

[hellop2]

I bought a Visio TV and there was too much static. One time a ghost appeared on the screen and then there was an earthquake. Then my sister got sucked through a portal to another dimension and my aunt Tangina had to come save her. Would not buy again.