17 Jul
2003
17 Jul
'03
8:04 a.m.
Hello Robert,
due to its rounded-off shape
This design style has come into practice in the design of many products like
portable boom boxes, etc. and even more recently designed automobiles have
more rounded, and less angular or rectangular, designs. Doesn't do much for
me either.
Best Regards
At 11:33 AM 7/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
Hopefully this isn't too off-topic, but a thought
just occured to me
about computers that some may, or may not, want to collect in the
future, which aren't classics yet. It seems that many of the newer
computers have been designed with uncollectability, as well as a high
degree of user-annoyance, in mind. Somehow, either some marketing
idiots, or clueless enginers, got the idea to design computer
equipment that's unstackable due to its rounded-off shape... the iMacs
and some Compaq PeeCees (e.g. Presario 4814) come to mind. Is anyone
going to be seriously interested in collecting computer equipment that
can't be stacked, and does anyone actually find equipment that can't
be stacked, or have anything stacked on top of it (not even a monitor
or books, etc), to be other than an annoyance?
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