The mere existence of many of those junkers doesn’t mean that there aren’t any well-designed PC laptops. Sure, there are many people don’t know any better and end up with 9lb luggable spacewarmers with displays that are overkill in size for a portable (for the vast majority of users), but compensate by having ridiculously low pixel density. For one, despite having a significantly larger footprint than the Thinkpad, it actually managed to have a smaller keyboard – despite the nearly full-sized function keys on the IBM, comapared to the half-size F keys on the iBook.Īnd, of course, there’s the old Douglas Adams line about the original Mac portable where he described it as “Great for for eating sandwiches off and slightly lighter than carrying around a table.”Īpple’s level of design is just not seen in the regualr PC world.Įh, that’s a bit of a sweeping generalization. The thing I find amusing here was that I did some work on an iBook G4 a few months back and noticed some funny things when it was sitting side-by-side with my Thinkpad. People are used to noisy 3″ thick laptops, massive beige boxes and poor attempts at style from HP, PB, Dell et al. I’ve had the exact same comments on my Thinkpad, and it’s a measly x30 (people are mostly impressed by the small size). I fix PCs now and meet a wide range of people, mostly with little to no PC skills and they’ve never seen an Apple computer before, but always comment on how nice it is. Sure the geeks slobber, but I’m amazed at how many regular people comment on my laptop.
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