RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Turtles and iBooks

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Davis, Ryan Wiley (UMC-Student) wrote:

> As for the ibooks, they are pretty cool looking, Im glad they fired
> the bunch of hippies that were doing their previous icrap design. Some
> of those colors would give me a headache if I looked at them too long
> they were so loud. The nice thin gun-metal grey look is how a computer
> is suppose to be, a weapon. :)

I'll actually offer a counterpoint to this.  The original ibook design was
a truly great one for a laptop from the standpoint of trying to use the
thing when it was perched on...wait for it...your *lap*.  The "old" ibook
is also, I'm convinced, much, much closer to indestructability than pretty
much any other notebook.  You could argue that the weight was a bit high,
and the original ibooks were gratuitously under-powered, of course.  But
what was wrong with the colors?  You have something *against* lime green?
:-)

jking

ps--the new ibook is a very impressive machine, although a somewhat
different concept.  The only really annoying design feature it has is
the inability to do a side-by-side desktop with an attached monitor,
apparently because they were afraid that would help/make it cannibalize
their "real" notebook sales.


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