Andrew Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >care if its design pleases me and works for me. Some things I like >are new, some are old, some very old. Rounded edges are comfortable; >sharp edges are not, and seem to me an emphasis of "stylish" >appearance over real functionality. Style over substance. Which is, >true, what sells. > >Actually, the Pismo PowerBook seems to me to be a design >*perfected*--as much as anything is in the computer world. They >stayed with the design that began with the WallStreet long enough to >get most of the flaws worked out. I'm increasingly frustrated with >the computer industry's never *finishing* anything. Everything they >put out is about 80% done (or less, sometimes much less), but rather >than complete what they started, they just go on to the next *new* >thing, which will also be released when about 80% done ... and so on, >apparently ad infinitum. It's rather like the attention span of a >small child. Monkey-mind on steroids. I don't need to have something >*new* every fine minutes to keep my interest; I want something that >*works* without constant troubleshooting and "bug fixes" that >themselves invariably introduce new bugs. > >As for TiBook problems, I haven't owned one myself, of course, but I >note that the TiBook report keeps going on and on at MacInTouch. >Which isn't true of the iceBook report. Without investigating the >details (other than chipping paint, AirPort reception, >fragile/expensive hinges that have become famous) that leaves me with >a clear impression, that the somewhat experimental, >pushing-the-envelope design hasn't entirely worked out. > >One of these days the TiBook also will be declared "old" by the >Fashion Police; I've already read hints of this in the computer press >by writers to whom anything that hasn't substantially changed for all >of two years is ripe for total replacement for that reason alone, >regardless of any other consideration. (Can't help but wonder how >such people manage their personal relationships. "You're last year's >model; get out of my life!") Then the "forward-looking" will be >dismissing TiBook lovers as hopelessly old-fashioned. Well, you can >come hang out with us other used-up old fogies while the teenagers >jeer at you. > >Andrew Main > > Very true, Andrew. Both thoughts, about the rounded beauty of the pismo and the new products in computers. Let the follow fashion monkeys go their ways.
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