Except for those of us who build our own desktop computers, laptops have become the product that increasingly defines our personalities and which one we choose says more and more about who we are. Until recently our choices were defined by vendors: Apple if you favored high design, IBM if you liked reliability and unique features like secret keyboard light, Dell if you were driven by price and Sony if small was your thing.
A laptop is a complete package: form, price, OS, apps. I'll stick with a PowerBook. Two years in, no problems. The crew that left Apple is making the same mistake Jobs made at Next: producing an interesting, albeit irrelevant machine that nobody is buying. Old design or not, Apple is making lots of money selling lots of PowerBooks.
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New Laptops Define ‘Cool’
Posted by: Rob Enderle September 6, 2005 05:00 AMExcept for those of us who build our own desktop computers, laptops have become the product that increasingly defines our personalities and which one we choose says more and more about who we are. Until recently our choices were defined by vendors: Apple if you favored high design, IBM if you liked reliability and unique features like secret keyboard light, Dell if you were driven by price and Sony if small was your thing.
The crew that left Apple is making the same mistake Jobs made at Next: producing an interesting, albeit irrelevant machine that nobody is buying. Old design or not, Apple is making lots of money selling lots of PowerBooks.