Wednesday, October 15, 2008

meme( the new Macbooks: beautiful on bottom and ugly on top )

I don't quite know what to think about the design of these new machines. The new manufacturing process seems to produce beautiful results. I always liked the look of the black keyboards on the macbook airs vs. the cheezy silver paint on plastic keys of the macbook pros. And the build quality really does seem to give the thing an intrinsic beauty. But I'm not really down with the black glass displays with the overly large bezel (bevel?). I've tried to get used to it on the iMacs, but it always strikes me as an ugly face on a beautiful body. I think a major problem is that the OS X desktop seems to clash with the black of the display. Who's with me? Another problem is that the bevel seems too wide for these science fiction times. I can imagine that by 2023, it will have grown to a full 3 inches on all four sides of the display.

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