Apple forces manufacturers to stop making Zenbooks...

[alfa147x]

You should practice what your preach and destroy your Hackintosh rig and poney up for a real MacPro if your such a devouted Apple fan.

I guess it's Ok for you to build a wanna be mac but not for some company to make a product that somewhat looks just as ugly as Apples.

Yes because my hackintosh looks like a Mac Pro and runs windows while selling it to make a profit. 🙄 If anything I'm just violating the ToS / EULA

 

[destrekor]

To be fair, I'm having trouble finding specific links to models I have seen before.

Lian-Li makes (made?) some eerily-similar looking cases that had been around for awhile, but not finding them anymore.

Hmm, appears the Apple manufacturing pressure really put a hurt on the similar-case market. 😛

Honestly, search google yourself for "mac pro / "g5 similar cases", as at this point (having failed to find one in the first minute), I have given up wasting time on you, alfa, if you refuse to accept reason and logic. You're sticking to your biased guns, and it seems anything contrary to what you believe is just going right through your head.

I don't know what happened to these cases, because Lian Li used to make a few that were very popular (and expensive), and at various times, I do know Apple's pressure (not legal, with no true legal case... but pressure from a major company does work wonders to convince you to change your small business) shut down various companies who used similar cases to offer pre-built computers (of course, you also draw attention to yourself when using similar website-design schemes and other methods of bringing the "it looks similar to Apple but it's not!" attention).

But seriously, this whole "if it looks similar, it's gotta be illegal" thing... well, like I said, it appears debating otherwise with you is a pointless affair, and I'm tired of wasting my time.

 

[alfa147x]

To be fair, I'm having trouble finding specific links to models I have seen before.

Lian-Li makes (made?) some eerily-similar looking cases that had been around for awhile, but not finding them anymore.

Hmm, appears the Apple manufacturing pressure really put a hurt on the similar-case market. 😛

Honestly, search google yourself for "mac pro / "g5 similar cases", as at this point (having failed to find one in the first minute), I have given up wasting time on you, alfa, if you refuse to accept reason and logic. You're sticking to your biased guns, and it seems anything contrary to what you believe is just going right through your head.

I don't know what happened to these cases, because Lian Li used to make a few that were very popular (and expensive), and at various times, I do know Apple's pressure (not legal, with no true legal case... but pressure from a major company does work wonders to convince you to change your small business) shut down various companies who used similar cases to offer pre-built computers (of course, you also draw attention to yourself when using similar website-design schemes and other methods of bringing the "it looks similar to Apple but it's not!" attention).

But seriously, this whole "if it looks similar, it's gotta be illegal" thing... well, like I said, it appears debating otherwise with you is a pointless affair, and I'm tired of wasting my time.

Those are cases. Apple makes computers...

 

[destrekor]

Those are cases. Apple makes computers...

And your point?

This conversation is about design, whether you care to admit it or not.


Hey, turns out I too can make rather pointless posts that lack any substance or argument. huh, imagine that.

 

[alfa147x]

And your point?

This conversation is about design, whether you care to admit it or not.


Hey, turns out I too can make rather pointless posts that lack any substance or argument. huh, imagine that.

The argument is about Zenbooks which is a computer not a laptop shell. Do you need proof of that?

 

[alfa147x]

nvm

 

[Bateluer]

To be fair, I'm having trouble finding specific links to models I have seen before.

Lian-Li makes (made?) some eerily-similar looking cases that had been around for awhile, but not finding them anymore.

Hmm, appears the Apple manufacturing pressure really put a hurt on the similar-case market. 😛

Honestly, search google yourself for "mac pro / "g5 similar cases", as at this point (having failed to find one in the first minute), I have given up wasting time on you, alfa, if you refuse to accept reason and logic. You're sticking to your biased guns, and it seems anything contrary to what you believe is just going right through your head.

I don't know what happened to these cases, because Lian Li used to make a few that were very popular (and expensive), and at various times, I do know Apple's pressure (not legal, with no true legal case... but pressure from a major company does work wonders to convince you to change your small business) shut down various companies who used similar cases to offer pre-built computers (of course, you also draw attention to yourself when using similar website-design schemes and other methods of bringing the "it looks similar to Apple but it's not!" attention).

But seriously, this whole "if it looks similar, it's gotta be illegal" thing... well, like I said, it appears debating otherwise with you is a pointless affair, and I'm tired of wasting my time.

Uh . . Lian Li still makes some of the best cases out there. Most from aluminum. And under Apple's logic, the 3 dimensional rectangle was invented and patented by Apple, so therefore no one else can make a computer case.


http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/produc...576&cl_index=1&sc_index=26&ss_index=66&g=spec

Apple obviously needs to sue Lian Li for using this design, its clearly ripping off Apple. Brushed silver aluminum, 3D rectangular design, right angles. Obviously a copy cat.

 

[Fritzo]

Why isn't Apple suing HP for it's Envy line? They didn't just copy bits and pieces of the Macbook Pro, they duplicated it:

 

[alfa147x]

I;ve wondered the same...

 

[MrX8503]

The Envy line has copied the MBP for several years now. For now Apple hasn't sued HP for the design, but in all honesty no one knows for sure why Apple sues certain companies and not others.

 

[alent1234]

To be fair, I'm having trouble finding specific links to models I have seen before.

Lian-Li makes (made?) some eerily-similar looking cases that had been around for awhile, but not finding them anymore.

Hmm, appears the Apple manufacturing pressure really put a hurt on the similar-case market. 😛

Honestly, search google yourself for "mac pro / "g5 similar cases", as at this point (having failed to find one in the first minute), I have given up wasting time on you, alfa, if you refuse to accept reason and logic. You're sticking to your biased guns, and it seems anything contrary to what you believe is just going right through your head.

I don't know what happened to these cases, because Lian Li used to make a few that were very popular (and expensive), and at various times, I do know Apple's pressure (not legal, with no true legal case... but pressure from a major company does work wonders to convince you to change your small business) shut down various companies who used similar cases to offer pre-built computers (of course, you also draw attention to yourself when using similar website-design schemes and other methods of bringing the "it looks similar to Apple but it's not!" attention).

But seriously, this whole "if it looks similar, it's gotta be illegal" thing... well, like I said, it appears debating otherwise with you is a pointless affair, and I'm tired of wasting my time.

2/3 of the computer market is laptops. anyone still in trying to make money in the desktop/tower market is going to have a hard time staying in business