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Does anyone else find these terminally unattractive? They're super-ellipsoids with the occasional meaningless chunk cut out. What happened to my sixties future
by diiq 17y ago
Does anyone else find these terminally unattractive? They're super-ellipsoids with the occasional meaningless chunk cut out.
What happened to my sixties future, where the supercomputers were shiny slick hospital white or the nineties when desktops were okudagrams, or at least the 80's when computers surrounded you with information and controls? Or how about the streamlined future of the thirties, when things at least looked fast.
Sexy design of racks ought to make me trust that the machine will run until the year 5421, possibly in zero-g while tended by a woman in Velcro booties and a spherical hat.
Sexy design of user machines ought to make me feel like a genius because of the obvious power at my disposal, to be used with bravado because it's clearly too smart to be broken. I won't want to let it out of my sight because I'm afraid it will find a new user. Withdrawal symptoms probable.
- rbanffy 17y agoAs I said a couple hours ago, I like the z9. It looks powerful. The HP is futuristic. The desktops are either dated or Mac-ish. Macs are pretty, but don't look powerful or sexy. As for the rackmounts, they are all boring. Very boring. The problem these days is conformity. Desktops must run Windows, so, they have to be x86s - and those are boring chips - and have a certain number of keys and a certain set of ports. They can't differentiate much. The farthest I saw was a couple Macs with notebook-style keyboards. No F13~24, no Sun-like added keypad to the left. Conformity castrated industrial designers. And servers must be rack-mountable, so that limits what a designer can do with it. Not even Frog Design can save us now. Even Sun, who had good taste by the early 90's was selling an atrociously ugly 22" LCD with their boxy überPCs. Meh... These are utterly boring times.