I think it's funny that everyone is like OMG rip off or that looks like the Air. What do you think a super skinny laptop is gonna look like? it is either going to have a flat box like shape similar to the Dell Adamo/Voodoo Envy or it is going to have the rounded sharp edge like the Air. There aren't a whole lot of options to change design ques other than color.
I am just happy that this isn't going to cost an unspecified body part to afford.
I tend to agree with this. There's only so much you can do with a design so I'm not going to describe these as "rip offs" or anything of the such. Whether I'd want to actually pay money for one, however, is an entirely different question until we see a specification sheet and reviews.
I take it none of you are industrial designers (or designers in general)? Why don't I never see the same: "There's only so much you can do with a design" response when Apple introduce a new product? As a designer myself, it erks me when I see such comments. As technology improve and becomes smaller, stronger, lighter, faster, there will always be ways to improve upon a design.
Hey Dave guess what they did improve on the design the one on the left has a full keyboard the Air doesn't.
I am not bad mouthing apple at the time the Air was a unique design inspiration, but you are still constrained to what you can do with a rectangular shape. It takes loads of money and influence to get everyone on board with a major platform redesign. I am sure it was no small feat getting Intel to buy in on the idea of pulling off such an ultra thin concept. They did it turned out profitable so they made the technology available for everyone else to copy.
The only thing that has really changed in the physical design of computers and laptops in 10 years has been faster, smaller, and lighter. Radical design is usually hard to get people on board with. I am just sick of people praising apple and badmouthing anyone who make anything that remotely resembles an apple product.
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I think it's funny that everyone is like OMG rip off or that looks like the Air. What do you think a super skinny laptop is gonna look like? it is either going to have a flat box like shape similar to the Dell Adamo/Voodoo Envy or it is going to have the rounded sharp edge like the Air. There aren't a whole lot of options to change design ques other than color.
I am just happy that this isn't going to cost an unspecified body part to afford.
I tend to agree with this. There's only so much you can do with a design so I'm not going to describe these as "rip offs" or anything of the such. Whether I'd want to actually pay money for one, however, is an entirely different question until we see a specification sheet and reviews.
I take it none of you are industrial designers (or designers in general)? Why don't I never see the same: "There's only so much you can do with a design" response when Apple introduce a new product? As a designer myself, it erks me when I see such comments. As technology improve and becomes smaller, stronger, lighter, faster, there will always be ways to improve upon a design.
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Hey Dave guess what they did improve on the design the one on the left has a full keyboard the Air doesn't.
I am not bad mouthing apple at the time the Air was a unique design inspiration, but you are still constrained to what you can do with a rectangular shape. It takes loads of money and influence to get everyone on board with a major platform redesign. I am sure it was no small feat getting Intel to buy in on the idea of pulling off such an ultra thin concept. They did it turned out profitable so they made the technology available for everyone else to copy.
The only thing that has really changed in the physical design of computers and laptops in 10 years has been faster, smaller, and lighter. Radical design is usually hard to get people on board with. I am just sick of people praising apple and badmouthing anyone who make anything that remotely resembles an apple product.