I’ve just had a look at a photo stream on Flickr of the new MacBooks.
I think this Slashdot comment says it all:
I mean, it’s really not that great value for the black ones. It’s quite an expensive price bump for the black finish and an extra few gigs of hard dr….OH GOD I WANT A BLACK MACBOOK!
I am weak.
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May 18th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Wierd how everyone else has been making black laptops for ages, and everyone goes ‘Ooooh, look at apple with their shiny aluminium powerbooks and their daring multi-coloured iMacs’. And then somehow they can make a black computer and it’s somehow clever and cool and apple-like? Rubbish. It would be better it the put a bit more effort in to stopping my newly-installed-with-tiger work computer CRASHING FOR THE 20TH TIME TODAY COS IT’S TOO BLEEDING CLEVER FOR ITS OWN GOOD.
(And no. My domain name isn’t pointing anywhere yet
May 19th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
I was not aware that this was being trumpeted as an innovative feature.
Actually they were pretty daring, for the time. Although they were also running OS 9 *spits* so you can’t have everything.
Anyway look, I’m typing this on a very black ThinkPad but it looks so clunky compared to all that lovely MacBook svelteness. It’s an irrational thing, okay? Some people buy Burton boards, others buy Neversummer or Winterstick. Deal with it.
You shouldn’t anthropomorphise computers, it never helps. Speaking of which, have you tried repairing permissions?
May 20th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Now having actually seen a MacBook in the flesh, I must say, they’re a bit bigger than I thought, and heavier - surprisingly so (then again, I am spoilt by my ThinkPad - it’s an x40 and weighs 1.2kg - about half as much as the MacBook). I’m also not so convinced by the keyboard. Apparently you get used to it, but then once you’ve bought it what choice do you have?
I still want one though…