keith said:
The fact is that the target market for laptops don't want glitz.
They're getting what they want. You're the one who needs to get over it.
...or you could invest the money and build strawberry glitter notebooks to
meet the demand you see.
It's not entirely clear that the target market doesn't want glitz. The
current era of the straight-lined laptop may just be the signs of an
immature market -- a market still so bedazzled by the technology, that
it so far doesn't need to be bedazzled by the looks. Sort of like the
era of the Ford Model-T, where "you could have it any color, as long
as it was black". But this era will inevitably end, and people are
going to get bored by the same old thing.
These boutique laptops like the Tulips and to a lesser extent like the
Acer Ferraris, are probably the first in a changing guard. It's already
happened in desktops. Used to be a time when all desktop computers were
painted white, to the point where the whole market was called "the
white-box market". But it's quite obvious that the computers from
Alienware and Voodoo have carved out a niche for themselves, and that
niche is bound to expand.
Yousuf Khan