Why doesn't anyone come close to apple as far as design?

[Zebo]

I too, prefer plain black, grippy, tank like thinkpads.

Too bad the screen looks like you're looking through a screen door on a hot summers day. I have an x201 hate it.

 

[SandEagle]

the dell adamo looks nice

 

[DCal430]

following the lead already set by apple

And still doesn't look as nice. A decade behind and a mile short.

 

[Arkaign]

For notebooks Apple > *

For desktops, meh. Who gives a shit as long as it runs cool and delivers a huge $ for performance value. That's where PC > *. I have a nice Antec case, but how often do I look at it and care? Never. With laptops (and tablets/phones/mice/keyboards/screens), you're constantly interacting with them, so it's much, much, much more important that the ergonomics, build quality, tactile feel, etc all are as good as possible.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Posting in yet another silly dcal thread. Postcount ++ !

following the lead already set by apple

I believe Asus makes all of apples laptops. So not really.

 

[zerocool84]

Because with Apple you pay for how nice it is not the internals. With PC's you get a faster computer for a lot less. It's just about what you want and Apple people have gotten used to paying for the niceness and not having the fastest hardware.

 

[lxskllr]

And still doesn't look as nice. A decade behind and a mile short.

Those machines are going to sell for ~$200. Can you even buy an Apple power brick for that? :^D

 

[Zebo]

apple's thermal design for its towers is unreal

I've always wanted that case in ATX format to build PC. Never could find one ...I bet apple has patent on it's "look" somehow.

 

[Duder1no]

I believe Asus makes all of apples laptops. So not really.

I am talking about the iPad slim-like design so yes really

 

[MotF Bane]

They look like toys, to say nothing of how much you pay for how little you get.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Thinkpad design greatly outclasses Apple design.

 

[BoomerD]

Because, for NORMAL people, function > form.

 

[olds]

Wow, this took way too long to be posted.

 

[ProfJohn]

It's because Apple's designers are highly revered within in the company and are greatly admired.

In most other companies the design is an after thought.

 

[gevorg]

piano black > milky white

 

[DCal430]

Those machines are going to sell for ~$200. Can you even buy an Apple power brick for that? :^D

Then no doubt it will be cheaply made using cheap low end plastic parts. Apple is designed to take a beating and last over a decade. Also at $200 it will be using low end components, apple only uses the best components.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I liked my Dell Vostro (their business laptops). It didn't look special, but it had an aluminum case and didn't come with a bunch of crap preinstalled. Also, I didn't have to pay 2k for half decent specs.

 

[lxskllr]

piano black > milky white

I was just thinking yesterday how much I hate the color of my pearl Eee. I bought it second hand, so I didn't get a color choice, and price>color anyway, but I really dislike white computers, and electronic devices in general.

 

[pmv]

Even the most ardent windows fan will have to admit that apple makes the best looking PCs and Laptops. No other manufacture makes products as well designed as apple. Apple PCs are like an art work, so well designed. Apple designers are not doubt the best in the industry. Leagues beyond anyone else.

Why doesn't anyone else come close?

I'm more interested in bang-for-buck. Besides, if I want impressive _looking_ PCs I'd get one of the guys on the 'cases&cooling' forum of this very parish to build me one. There are plenty of custom-made PC cases out there that outshine Apple by some way.

Also I reckon Apple designers are over-rated - the stupid, stupid unusably slow and quite ridiculous wheel control on the ipod classic tells me that. They are obsessed with minimalism over usability. That Onion iwheel spoof video was spot on.

But I wouldn't knock anyone who wasn't a techy-minded geek _and_ had lots of money who chose Apple over a Windows PC. I'm sure they have their plus points.

 

[SamurAchzar]

Simple, because they adhere to a vision of a single madman. Coherency and polish as Apple provides is only possible in a dictatorship, which by all account Apple is.

 

[yllus]

The Thermaltake Level 10 PC case is pretty sexy and doesn't copy Apple. It's also $850, so barring insanity not many people will opt for it. And I very much like the look of my Dell XPS 8300.

 

[Numenorean]

I think most of Apples laptops look shitty.

 

[frostedflakes]

The Thermaltake Level 10 PC case is pretty sexy and doesn't copy Apple. It's also $850, so barring insanity not many people will opt for it. And I very much like the look of my Dell XPS 8300.

I think the Level 10 looks gaudy, but to each their own. 🙂

Lian Li, Silverstone, etc. make some very classy aluminum enclosures, though.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Even the most ardent windows fan will have to admit that apple makes the best looking PCs and Laptops.

Disagree. I do not like the look of any apple laptop or desktop.

There, I just proved you wrong :awe:

 

[dpodblood]

I really don't care for the Level 10, and it's really the polar opposite. Where Apple is minimalist and elegant, that is loud and chunky.