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Elegant is subjective. I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who honestly believes a Thinkpad to be more elegant than a Macbook Air. A response of

Elegant is subjective. I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who honestly believes a Thinkpad to be more elegant than a Macbook Air. A response of, "Disregard that the design sucks cocks," Excuse me?

blinkingled 15y ago
How much elegant is good enough or to what degree that is a concern is subjective. GP did not specify that elegance was the sole criteria which means he/she is probably ok with a fairly elegant machine within same ballpark of the Air - which the x220 is. The x220 certainly ain't ugly - it is thin, lightweight and durable. Many prefer the Thinkpad design. So even if for you personally elegance may be the first/only priority without override - many people are not that obsessive when it comes to choosing a work laptop. So the X220 is certainly a choice when you are thinking Macbook Air. The screen size falls nicely between the too small 11" and a bit too big 13.3", the CPUs are same gen, SSD is configurable etc.
- georgieporgie 15y ago
  So even if for you personally elegance may be the first/only priority without override Okay, I'm genuinely curious here. What's with all the strange, reactionary posts in this thread, and mis-categorization of people? When did I say anything about elegance being my first priority? I was quite clear in my statement, yet you've skewed it in a bizarre manner. many people are not that obsessive when it comes to choosing a work laptop Obsessive? How about appreciative? In fact, how about any word which isn't loaded? Again, there is some strange, defensive stuff going on here.
  - puredemo 15y ago
    Indeed. I've been reading a lot of responses thinking the same thing.
  - blinkingled 15y ago
    Well nothing to be defensive about. I was responding to the question /why even bring up Think pad when it looks less elegant/. Only a somewhat obsessed person will completely ignore a laptop because it is not as good looking as the Air. Nothing wrong or loaded about that - just that it isn't what everyone will generally do. And so the response wasn't completely irrelevant, that's all.
    - georgieporgie 15y ago
      Not defensive, but rather offended. Also, there is most certainly a lot of loaded text in your replies.
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pyre 15y ago
> > A response of, "Disregard that the design sucks cocks," > > Excuse me? Sorry, my (previous) 4chan roots showing through: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disregard-that-i-suck-cocks#.TlsUASxPdg4 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disregard-that-i-suck-cocks#.T... My point was that the responder at the top of the thread was saying (in so many words): ignore all of that so-called 'content' in the parent post, my (subjective) ideas about the design should trump all of that
- georgieporgie 15y ago
  I understand the 'meme' and don't see how it has any place here, whatsoever. As for your summary, I find it to be amazingly slanted toward a particular view. The X220 is truly nothing at all like the Macbook Air. I used a consumer grade Toshiba, so I have no horse in this race, but I can plainly see (from specs as well as design) that the X220 is in a significantly different category from the Air.
  - pyre 15y ago
    That's not what I was responding to. The original suggestion about the X220 was responded to by saying that the X220 isn't 'elegant' and has a design that harkens back to 2001 (which is implied to be a bad thing). The elegance of the design alone is not enough to place it in a different category. If the argument had been that it can't be classified in the same category as the MacBook Air (with a list of reasons other than "I think that it looks ugly"), then this thread would look a lot different.

blinkingled 15y ago

How much elegant is good enough or to what degree that is a concern is subjective. GP did not specify that elegance was the sole criteria which means he/she is probably ok with a fairly elegant machine within same ballpark of the Air - which the x220 is. The x220 certainly ain't ugly - it is thin, lightweight and durable. Many prefer the Thinkpad design. So even if for you personally elegance may be the first/only priority without override - many people are not that obsessive when it comes to choosing a work laptop. So the X220 is certainly a choice when you are thinking Macbook Air. The screen size falls nicely between the too small 11" and a bit too big 13.3", the CPUs are same gen, SSD is configurable etc.

georgieporgie 15y ago
So even if for you personally elegance may be the first/only priority without override Okay, I'm genuinely curious here. What's with all the strange, reactionary posts in this thread, and mis-categorization of people? When did I say anything about elegance being my first priority? I was quite clear in my statement, yet you've skewed it in a bizarre manner. many people are not that obsessive when it comes to choosing a work laptop Obsessive? How about appreciative? In fact, how about any word which isn't loaded? Again, there is some strange, defensive stuff going on here.
- puredemo 15y ago
  Indeed. I've been reading a lot of responses thinking the same thing.
- blinkingled 15y ago
  Well nothing to be defensive about. I was responding to the question /why even bring up Think pad when it looks less elegant/. Only a somewhat obsessed person will completely ignore a laptop because it is not as good looking as the Air. Nothing wrong or loaded about that - just that it isn't what everyone will generally do. And so the response wasn't completely irrelevant, that's all.
  - georgieporgie 15y ago
    Not defensive, but rather offended. Also, there is most certainly a lot of loaded text in your replies.
    - deleted 15y ago
      [deleted]

pyre 15y ago

> > A response of, "Disregard that the design sucks cocks," > > Excuse me? Sorry, my (previous) 4chan roots showing through: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disregard-that-i-suck-cocks#.TlsUASxPdg4 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disregard-that-i-suck-cocks#.T... My point was that the responder at the top of the thread was saying (in so many words): ignore all of that so-called 'content' in the parent post, my (subjective) ideas about the design should trump all of that

georgieporgie 15y ago
I understand the 'meme' and don't see how it has any place here, whatsoever. As for your summary, I find it to be amazingly slanted toward a particular view. The X220 is truly nothing at all like the Macbook Air. I used a consumer grade Toshiba, so I have no horse in this race, but I can plainly see (from specs as well as design) that the X220 is in a significantly different category from the Air.
- pyre 15y ago
  That's not what I was responding to. The original suggestion about the X220 was responded to by saying that the X220 isn't 'elegant' and has a design that harkens back to 2001 (which is implied to be a bad thing). The elegance of the design alone is not enough to place it in a different category. If the argument had been that it can't be classified in the same category as the MacBook Air (with a list of reasons other than "I think that it looks ugly"), then this thread would look a lot different.