Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Mar 2009 20:20 UTC
I'm not often wowed by a computer's design, probably because most of them appear to be designed by people with no sense of style and class whatsoever. The only (relatively) recent examples of decent design that I personally find to have a "wow factor" are Apple's MacBook Air and the PowerMac Cube from the same company. Yesterday, however, I was wowed again by a product from a company you wouldn't expect it from: Dell.
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Most people would not need the beauty as a feature to pay for, and to pay for dearly.
I would pay 500$ more for a laptop if it would have instant On/Off; 500$ more if it has 10 hours of playback time; 500$ if it has a bright screen that will be readable under the sunlight; 500$ more if it is rugged or water proof; 500$ if it has 2nd HDD for RIAD1 or for automatic backup of drive 1; 500$ if it has 5 years onsite warranty on hardware; 500$ if it has no BIOS anymore; 500$ if ....
Dell wants to rip money quickly right now from customers to correct its financial problems (68$/share to just 8$)(or market capital 70 Billion to 16 Billion), rather than really innovating somethings good like Apple or IBM do.
Once Dell get the market share they want, they will start dropping all of those nice looking laptops and switching back to commodity laptops (500$ disposables)
Current Dell(Inspiron or Vostro) or HP(Dv line) laptop motherboards are refurbished and they tend to die within the first 1-2 years.
Computer quality and novel features are the things that attracts me and others