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The particulars of the choice are telling. The context called for a piece of clearly inferior hardware, and he picked a design legend. There are many outstand
by dkarl 15y ago
The particulars of the choice are telling. The context called for a piece of clearly inferior hardware, and he picked a design legend. There are many outstandingly crappy examples of laptop hardware, and instead he picked a polarizing but very highly regarded design. He did it on purpose -- you don't accidentally choose the only laptop on display at the Museum of Modern Art as your exemplar of bad design (though, if you're a bit arrogant and poncey, it's a clever mistake to pretend to make.) You do it to polarize the debate and filter your readership to the folks who are likely to agree with you.
- whatusername 15y agoBy not reading on though -- you missed the link in the footnote: Famously, upon returning to Apple in 1997, Jobs used a ThinkPad running OpenStep until, presumably, Apple shipped a PowerBook that met his standards. http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209 http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209
- simonw 15y ago"The context called for a piece of clearly inferior hardware" No, you misunderstood the article. The context called for a piece of SUPERIOR hardware. Your entire complaint here is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the point Gruber was trying to make.