I've had to sit and watch as functionality took a back seat to form while Apple's marketing department worked its magic. I turned to one of my childhood idols, the ThinkPad, for refuge. To me form is important until it compromises functionality, and equally, functionality itself can be the greatest form.
The best example for me *is* the ThinkPad. Most people think its ugly... yet within its minimalistic matte black shell and subtle accents there lies such brilliant engineered magnificence as to lend to the whole a beauty greater than any other I have ever seen. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. They're adorable.
I forgive Lenovo sometimes for the things they've had to change to keep up with the increasingly cosmopolitan technology market, because I understand. To me though, the whole will always be more than the sum of its parts. I'm also a little biased (I have 14 or 15 ThinkPads now, I lost count).
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tefal?
@samisax ThinkPad I hope. Finest pc laptops made.
@TheKingOfHyrule
re: ThinkPad: Amen.
I've had to sit and watch as functionality took a back seat to form while Apple's marketing department worked its magic. I turned to one of my childhood idols, the ThinkPad, for refuge. To me form is important until it compromises functionality, and equally, functionality itself can be the greatest form.
The best example for me *is* the ThinkPad. Most people think its ugly... yet within its minimalistic matte black shell and subtle accents there lies such brilliant engineered magnificence as to lend to the whole a beauty greater than any other I have ever seen. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. They're adorable.
I forgive Lenovo sometimes for the things they've had to change to keep up with the increasingly cosmopolitan technology market, because I understand. To me though, the whole will always be more than the sum of its parts. I'm also a little biased (I have 14 or 15 ThinkPads now, I lost count).
@micahben
HAL?