Performance over looks......

True many companies try to make the laptops look to stunning ans have an adequate amount of performance.i knoe for a fact people dont buy laptops for show they buy them for whatever work they are doing or trying to finish or just for internet browsing the market does supply us with a fairly large choice of laptops. each one falls in a certain category. yes laptops that are even high end dont sell for 2 form factors (IMO) they are either to big or non attractive well depending in a persons point of view i guess.....

 

Well variety comes with the market. High end laptops are a more restricted market than mainstream ones so you have less choices as to the different models.

 

thats true looks do play a small role very true.... not saying they dont i just feel that if u pick a laptop thats all one color they seem to fit in all sorts of situation....from school-business...... true what you said u cant bring a laptop that looks like the rainbow to an office meeting they wont take what your trying to say very seriously cuz now a days they take people by their appearance rather than what sort of knowledge u know towards the subject stupid but in most cases true dont know why close minded people i guess

 

Well it's called society my dear lol

Why must you wear black at most common western funerals? Why must a bride wear a nice big white dress? Why must corporate executes wear suits? It's all social construction.

It's a question of opinion as to what laptop fits to what situation really. As houstoned said, "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder"

 

Gateway FX P7805, great example of good performance and looks... not to mention price.

I'd take significant/relevant performance boost over looks just about any day.

I think Lenovos are quite beautiful... kind of like Shrek.

 

actually that statement is pretty inaccurate. a perfect example would be apple laptops. a huge percentage of apple customers do not buy their laptops for the performance. macbooks aren't even very performance oriented. they are just mid-range in terms of power. they buy them cuz they are trendy and look nice.

business or professional laptops don't mean a plain dark colored brick anymore. a perfect example would be the sager line of laptops. they have 15.4" laptops with very fast processors and 260m (or was it 280m) GPU's. even my xps m1530 would look great in an office or metting environment. if u are payin a premium for high end equipment, there's no reason to sacrifice one thing for another. today's laptop market is huge to accommodate each and everyone's preference.

please don't get me wrong. i really respect yur's and everyone else's personal preference. i'm just sayin there's no need to choose one or the other when u can have both. high-end or performance doesn't just mean a bunch of flashy UFO lights.

 

Yes I totaly agree with you.

 

yeah i guess performance takes this one..........

 

Looks are very important to me. Up until last August, I was ready to buy a Macbook Pro just because it was the only laptop that I liked how it looks (I was actually planning on installing Windows on it anyways, I don't like OSX). All the Windows-based laptops looked ugly.

Then Sony released the FW and I fell in love and even sacrificed performance (the GPU) because of looks. As it stands now, other than Apple laptop, only the Vaio FW and Z look nice to me.

 

I would have to go with both Performance / Looks..and of course functionality.

You can get both out of a lappy...it just depends on your own wants and needs!


Cin

 

Constructed, yes, but not arbitrarily or irrationally, but rather, at bottom, as a means of overcoming the limitations inherent in limited sensory and cognitive resources and the ambiguities that an inductive, pattern-chasing intellect would make out of a less pronounced method of communication.

In short, if your respect for the deceased is real, then form should comport with substance, and since black is associated both with death and with respect, failing to wear black at a funeral means you're muddying the waters of what you're communicating to others (intentionally or accidentally).

Similarly, unless the bride wears something truly distinctive, that no one else would wear, that both draws one's attention directly to her, and advertises in an instant "here is the bride" how else would one know whom the bride was? That could put a stag guest in an extremely awkward position if the groom and his posse of "best men" come over and keelhaul his butt 'cause that cute little number he was hitting on turned out to be the bride.

A similar line of reasoning goes for so-called corporate dress (which doesn't depend so much on the legal structure chosen for a particular business, but rather on the role that business is expected to play vis-a-vis its customers and the larger society - e.g., lawyers are expected to be sober fiduciaries looking out for their clients' best interests as if they were those of the lawyer her/himself - accordingly, lawyers will typically wear that costume that has become associated with sober, professional conduct and exquisite good judgment - the typical client is simply not going to trust an attorney who shows up in court wearing a Bonzo the Clown outfit, no matter how expensive it was; further, in a sort of self-fulfilling/vicious-circle sort of way, an attorney who ought to know what type of image/first impression s/he should convey will in fact be demonstrating a lack of good judgment if s/he wears that coveted Bonzo the Clown outfit because s/he has, ipso facto, demonstrated an inability to understand the expectations s/he must be able to work with, or else has chosen to intentionally flout those expectations - in either case, someone who is looking to have a complicated estate plan drawn up is not going to be willing to entrust that work to the Bonzo-wearing attorney, and with some justification, as well. On the other hand, in certain industries, it is the mark of a consummate attorney in that field that s/he does not wear the traditional professional costume, but instead adopts the more relaxed/edgier costume of her/his clientele because that clientele has, as a group, the attitude that anyone who does not dress like them is not worthy of associating with them, and further that anyone who adopts the traditional costume is a mired stick in the mud who simply won't be able to "get" the exciting new synergies and realities that clientele believes it is in sole possession of.

It all comes down to the need for shorthand methods of unambiguous communication.

 

performance, but my laptop has both looks and performace

Gateway- m-6862

 

I laughed so hard reading this.
Like you said, there are simpler ways of communicating your message. Like shorter sentences. LOL

 

I hate my notebook. W840DI It's ugly. all super glossy, it has always lots of fingerprints, I hate it. it has a backlight keyboard though which I like a lot. The design is awful, just a box full of bad taste. I really hate how it looks.

But I don't care about it (ok just a little bit because about the glossy and the fingerprints). I really don't care about how it looks. I knew before I buy it that I didn't like the looks. but it performs great, the screen is over full HD, superb image, superb performance. 15k3dmark. I buy it for use it I didn't buy it to look at it. I buy paintings for that. I love my notebook.

 

i assume u were on some kind of budget cuz u had to compromise between performance vs looks. i'm sure if u had an unlimited budget, u would not have gone with that particular laptop. u would've bought somethin with the same or better performance, but had looks to match yur taste.

me, personally, i refuse to compromise between the 2. this is my hard earned money and i will have both. end of story.

 

Looks > Performance

My laptop is largely at the periphery of my computer usage. I have a decent dual-monitor desktop rig for heavy lifting like gaming. My notebook is largely relegated to browsing and note-taking. Just about anything made in the last five years can handle that. I use it mainly in public so I like to have a good looking machine that reflects my champagne tastes and camouflages my beer budget. When people ask about my VAIO TR series, they are always surprised to find it's six years-old and can be had on a eBay for a couple hundred bucks.

 

actually i got the same laptop IMO i think that it looks ugly it looks like a giant rat (GRAY COLOR) that why i painted it to an all black color palmrest and all..... except for the brush metal

 

As long as the notebook isn't hideous, I don't really mind looks. Performance is definitely more important. I mean my notebook, a Compal IFL90, has a pretty generic, almost business-like, look with a glossy black lid. I didn't buy it for looks, I bought it for performance and quality. However, I must say, I prefer how it looks over just about every single notebook I see these days (I know looks a subjecive).

Now, certainly, I have been thinking about giving this notebook some cosmetic changes, partly to get rid of the scrathes on the glossy lid, and partly to give it a fresher look. But that will only happen after I upgrade some of the components.

 

It's funny how you start your post with "i hate my notebook" and finish it with "i love my notebook"... But Hey, i'm with you. Like i said before i buy a notebook to use it, not to show it (or to look at it, like you said)... You can have the prettiest, better looking laptop, but for example, if you're a gamer, and that BEATIFUL thing can't play your games, then it wont work for you. If you're a designer, and that perfect looking laptop can't do video coding, or handle design programs, it won't work for you either...

 

I dont know it looks prett good to me, from the side i think its hot, like the one in ur avy, though i wish they had desgins on it like HP and Dell does for the cover,i'm still looking to get one..How did you paint yours? If you dont mind can you post pictures But, hey we prob got it from best buy when they had the deal..

 

Huge, ugly, and powerful lapzilla FTW!!

...nuff said *sidles away*

 

I will carry an ugly brick if it is powerful.

But my lappy is powerful and stylish at the same time.

 

hey mexicansnake where did u get that laptop from the gateway one

 

While I agree that it's much easier to get performance and looks in the same package nowadays, the one that wins out will be determined (or influenced heavily) by each person's needs/wants/buying criteria.

Take me for example......I went all out building my second desktop, so I didn't necessarily need to make performance or looks a priority when I bought my lappy (a Dell Latitute E6400)....though I gotta say it is cool how the E6400 kinda matches my desktop (with an Antec 1200 case)