Comments on: black is beautiful

By: waiting for Santa Rosa at Haibane.info

waiting for Santa Rosa at Haibane.info — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:13:49 +0000

[...] I bought my T42 Thinkpad with a Dothan chip (ie, Yonah’s predescessor, the Pentium M). I have no regrets; I bought the T42 in December and have used it heavily. As Anand points out, the Santa Rosa platform will really give Merom it’s full potential - primarily the counterintuitive impact that increasing the front-side bus speed wil have for lengthening battery life: [...]

By: also makes Julienne fries at Haibane.info

also makes Julienne fries at Haibane.info — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:24:41 +0000

[...] I suppose this is part of the value-add of the black casing. Should I be envious? [...]

By: fledgling otaku

fledgling otaku — Thu, 18 May 2006 12:26:36 +0000

Mark, I think that Apple has been pretty consistent - you pay more for extra “style”. And black is the new white, apparently. It’s basically a fashion premium.

What is more baffling is how this new MacBook will uttterly cannibalize sales of the iBook, but I guess they can dump those machines on the resale/educational channel.

quorlox, you’ve seen my keyboard, admit it was awesome Keep i mind though that 99% of your interaction with your machine (esp if youre a blogger, writer, or programmer) is through the keyboard. It makes a difference - the single most important piece of teh user interface.

By: Quorlox

Quorlox — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:32:21 +0000

I think you’re obsessed with keyboards; always encouraging others to touch and feel it.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:54:41 +0000

The new black MacBook is baffling. It’s pretty much the same as the white one, except that it has 20GB more hard drive space and $200 higher price. Huh? $200 for a marginally bigger HD and a color change? I like Macs (well, I like OSX), but I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready to pay such a high premium (even for the white one)… then again, that premium appears to be shrinking…