Microsoft CES fashion show flaunts (some) good looking gear
By Christopher Grant 
posted Jan 10th 2008 8:15PM
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Sweet hardware, now they just need a good operating system...
what's wrong with boring and dependable? Window users should be glad their systems are boring and...ah, never mind.
I would love a laptop that had cow-like markings on it, (I do live on a farm after all) but I wouldn't like one that had the actual hair on it. ;)
Maybe Gateway can hook you up.
I was thinking the same thing. My mum would love a laptop like that!
the blonde on the left has really sexy legs
both "blondes" have good legs.
GQ meets Maxim meets Microsoft.
Brown is the new white. That said, Apple beat white to the ground, its they who need a change
Apparently it is you who needs to keep up with the times. Apple hasn't put out a new white product in quite awhile and has been methodically replacing all their once white products with new colored replacements. Imac - hasn't been white for months. iPod - hasn't been white for months. Last new product revision that introduced a white color product - years ago.
But personally, I think primary colors don't ever go out of style.
garbuhj, white is a neutral, not a primary color. :)
Actually white is every color, but lets not hurt anyones feelings...
Actually white is every color, but lets not hurt anyones feelings...
This actually plays into Apple's hands, if you think about it. While competitors try to out-due each other with increasingly gaudy designs, Apple maintanes a clean, minimalist design that looks stylish instead of desperate.
... by minimalist you mean subpar quality and outdated designs?
yeah Mike D, you have to understand: cow spots are vogue now.
You do know, that some of those designs of Apple's, also came from Sony Vaios, right?
I mean after all, the popular chiclet keyboard you see on the MacBook Pro's have been on Sony Vaio FE's quite a while before the MBP's were released.
And Vaios have always had a sort of simplistic design themselves, and usually have had better specs than most PC's.
It's just that most people have never seen them in real life to actually acknowledge them.
There's only so much you can do with the form of a laptop, it's gotta be flat, & small. Desktop shape is where I hope we see a whole load more innovation & style, those all-in-ones are a step along the way I guess.
Cow-fur would lose it's novelty pretty quick for me. Hope it doesn't have overheating problems. It would be cool to see more laptop designs using different shell materials though.
I always wondered who taught of the brown zune.
Microsoft should stick with software at least you can turn it off if it annoys you.
In the words of Robin Williams these styles would offend a blind gay man.
Things like this are what I don't understand about Microsoft. They have plenty of smart people in house, plenty of assorted partners in industry, and enough spare cash to buy any dozen fashion and/or design outfits. They could have had basically any industrial design talent, not already working directly for Apple, for pocket change. The display models don't even have to work, or be nearing release. They could hire artisans to apply 80 coats of finest varnish, by hand, with a fine brush, to a case built of titanium and areogel by a secret NASA/Skunkworks consortium. I just don't know how they could possibly lose.
And they we see the lineup. A couple of G3 clamshell lookalikes that let Paris Hilton dress them, a computer with fur, and a few computers with paintjobs that Honest Ivan's Not a Chop Shop Garage and Paint Shop could have done in 1994.
This isn't just Microsoft bashing. I honestly don't understand. MS isn't stupid, MS has every desire for PC laptops to look amazing, MS has significant talent available, and MS has more money than god. How can they not succeed at this?
I agree. There have been several concept PC's from Microsoft before that were pretty amazing:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071128/microsoft-ammunition-longhorn-pc-concept/
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070917/revisiting-microsofts-vista-pc-concept/
I guess if Microsoft did, you would have to wonder how Dell, HP, and other computer makers would feel about this. I bet they would be outraged. But sadly, they can have trouble understanding what simplicity in simple product lines, no stickers, no cheap crap, and a bazillion other things mean. Only Sony is the one that for the most part makes great laptops.
But I wouldn't mind a real ultraslim touchscreen/multi-touch laptop with Surface or Win7 on it.
I completely agree. I have wondered this myself many times. Between Microsoft, Dell, and HP, there has got to be almost limitless cash to buy up any industrial design firms they could dream of. AND STILL THEY PRODUCT SHIT! Year after year!!! At least Sony's stuff, especially in Japan, is looking really good lately. Regardless, Apple has wiped the floor with every PC company since it's inception. The industrial design that comes out of Cupertino is truly amazing....
"laptop with Surface"
Umm... You know Surface requires a flat cloth-like table with cameras mounted under it to detect when a finger or object depresses on said cloth, add that to the fact that the image on the "surface" is projected, and you'd have yourself a pretty thick laptop.
"laptop with Surface"
Umm... You know Surface requires a flat cloth-like table with cameras mounted under it to detect when a finger or object depresses on said cloth, add that to the fact that the image on the "surface" is projected, and you'd have yourself a pretty thick laptop.
Ugh, Engadget! Fix your servers!
they should put up a macbook there too... afterall.. its the "fastest" windows laptop... and looks good too !! :P
well i guess its because Microsoft doesnt want to make PCs or laptops on a large scale because that involves a lot more money then a few concepts which are good for PR.
@AMrit
yea the "" quotes on fastest are in the right place
i like mac design but its getting damn conformist if you ask me with everything and everybody wanting to be the same... takes the personal out of PC
Okay, Okay, but wait: is that a "more cowbell" reference engadget? For shame.