IBM Laptops:Ugly?

[hcomplyr]

I find the thinkpad design nice, its just a little black tome of laptop goodness

[verktyg]

Well, go to a highschool, or college, libary, cafe with internet.

I don't have time to go to high schools, or colleges, libarys, cafes with internet. Like most TP users..... I work!

How about a Gameboy?

[slagmi]

NotebookReview.com is one place, CNet is another.

Main reason the X300 is not for me is I like to play a 1st person shooter once in awhile, and if I'm OK with the slower performance then I don't need a new laptop! I don't think Photoshop would suffer a whole lot from 'only' having the X300 tho...

Once you have a laptop, better graphics are really about the only compelling reason to buy a whole new one-till it's broke or just way too old to run what you want- So buy the best graphics and screen you can afford. RAM, optical drive, etc. can be upped as you can budget.

[Navck]

I don't have time to go to high schools, or colleges, libarys, cafes with internet. Like most TP users..... I work!

How about a Gameboy?

Thats why you get a Thinkpad, you don't need to take "THE POWER OF A DESKTOP AND A HUGE UPS" for it around. Especially in 17 inch WIDE SCREEN format.

[supergoat]

I'm on my 3rd Thinkpad. I love the all business look and feel of them.

[lilserenity]

I think on the whole the look of ThinkPads is pretty nice, it's professional and no nonsense.

I own a couple of laptops presently, and neither are a ThinkPad (although all the laptops I have owned before, 560, 560X, 560Z, 765D, 570, 570E, T21 and T23) but the ThinkPad in my book is going to be more timeless than my Dell Latitude D600, and probably would look better in 3 years time than my D600 will in 3 years time. As such, I think the black simple exterior is nice. Makes a change to all this silver coloured plastic and so forth.

However, for style points and being equally timeless is the 12" iBook for me. Apple haven't really changed their look since 2001, bar the change from a tray modular drive to a slot loading mechanism (which made it even better), and it looks timeless to me. Sure it needs a bit more cleaning as it is literally white (iceBook), but to me, its design is pretty timeless too, more so than the original clamshell iBook. I think seeing a 12" iBook is believing in a thing of beauty in my book, and well - I would say I'd chose the 12" iBook over an X30/31/32/40/41 any day, but well - in fact I did choose it over those. It might be a teeny bit thicker to the X3x's and certainly a bit bigger than an X4x; but it is still tiny and has an optical drive.

But I think the ThinkPad and Apple iBook 12" and 12" Powerbooks (not so much a fan of the 15/17" Powerbooks, more to do with my general dislike of widescreen/large laptops than anything) are beautiful in their own ways.

I wouldn't say ThinkPads are necessarily ugly though, some can look clunky but that comes with age (compare them with other manufacturer's laptops of the same time, e.g.: a 1996 Toshiba to a ThinkPad 560)

Vicky