Comments on: ‘Swap music’ with Elonex’s The One

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:37:15 +0000

actually no
good design is the one thing that cheap knockoffs can’t get
you can reverse engineer everything with IIT and UBeijing graduates, but talented artists are hard to find and cornered by the market.
That’s their way of defending their edge – why else does someone pay $500 extra for the exact same laptop from Apple that you could get from Dell?

but yes, it would have been very Neuromancer-esque – sit down, jack in, and dive.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:16:53 +0000

I don’t understand why. Good design is free. Its not like its another component you have to put in it. You have to mold the plastic and arrange the parts anyway, so why not hire an hour or so of a good designer’s time (or, at the very least, don’t let the hardware engineers design it). I get that the parts inside are bricky, and there’s no getting around that, but this could have been a piece of cool William Gibson cyberpunk art so easily.
haven’t the people that are going to be using this suffered enough?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:59:48 +0000

Yeah for some reason, cheap laptops are designed to be ugly…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:58:25 +0000

…its ugly…really ugly.
i guess you don’t have to be rich to have no taste…