Re: Apple requests feedback on portables
On 7/27/02 2:02 PM Kevin Stevens edified us all by writing: From today's ADC newsletter: [3] Portables Team Requests Feedback Apple's Portables development team would like to know how they're doing with the PowerBook and iBook. From your ... are compelling to PC users looking to switch. Please categorize your comments as hardware, software, and Mac OS, and email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] before August 10, 2002. ... Got this one too, and I wrote to Apple to lose the brushed silver, industrial look on both the TiBooks and the QT/iTunes/i-anything software. I told Apple it doesn't go well with the rest of the Aqua interface, and that AppleWorks is the only Apple software I could recall which looks decent in appearance. To me as a person with an art background (B.S. in art, plus several years of professional photography experience), the TiBook (and the new QT look) seem so plain and boxy (makes it easier for someone else to mimic the appearance of Apple's products, IMHO). Now part of it also is that I like my Pismo, but I told Apple even the current iBooks look better visually than the TiBook. YMMV... Hopefully, this won't start a flame war... ;-) Hey, if you disagree, write Apple and express your support of brushed metal... :-) Jim Rohde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Apple requests feedback on portables
It would be nice if the PowerBook had a more rugged finish on it. Anodizing the titanium might help? Can you see them going back to heavier plastic? Id there a lighter weight, bullet-proof plastic out there? The artist in me agrees with you about the design of the newer portables...though bland and generic they still are clean and easy on the eyes. The Apple logo remains as a distinctive touch. Still, I like it when Apple's Industrial Design Group goes dramatic. D On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 04:06 PM, James Rohde wrote: Got this one too, and I wrote to Apple to lose the brushed silver, industrial look on both the TiBooks and the QT/iTunes/i-anything software. I told Apple it doesn't go well with the rest of the Aqua interface, and that AppleWorks is the only Apple software I could recall which looks decent in appearance. To me as a person with an art background (B.S. in art, plus several years of professional photography experience), the TiBook (and the new QT look) seem so plain and boxy (makes it easier for someone else to mimic the appearance of Apple's products, IMHO). Now part of it also is that I like my Pismo, but I told Apple even the current iBooks look better visually than the TiBook. YMMV... Hopefully, this won't start a flame war... ;-) Hey, if you disagree, write Apple and express your support of brushed metal... :-) Jim Rohde -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
