The best looking notebook, period.

Earliest ultrabook. Beautiful... no other word can describe it. It's even better in white:

 

At 1.8Kgs it was never an Ultrabook.

The VAIO X505 was arguably the earliest high-end Ultrabook.

 

Samsung Series 9 Laptop

 

That samsung laptop would look perfect if it wasn't for that ugly texture or whatever makes it look like hair

 

Maybe that's why they call it "brushed".

 

It would actually look hella boring if it wasn't brushed. It's attractive enough, but didn't push any buttons for me - everything about it stank of a barely disguised Air ripoff. The Adamo may have been an overweight, underspecced relative POS but it did aim for some degree of originality.

Among the recent laptops, while it's far from the best looking machine I've had or ever seen, and despite the fact that I've vowed never to darken Dell's door again, I still carry a torch for the Blood Orange M6500 Covet

 

VGNFE21S blew everything i saw away, best screen i ever saw too.

 

I think my sister had one of those before her current laptop. It was either that exact one or something very similar. It's now just sitting on her desk at home doing nothing.

 

That looks like a desktop

 

But its a brilliant XPS notebook... Love the design. Even Ironman has one in the office.

 

I do remember spending about 10 minutes just opening and closing that thing when I first got it out of the box. But I'd file it under 'interesting' than 'best looking'. If you closed it it was just another anonymous black IBM slab that I struggle to remember which was which back in the 90's when they used to be a staple for me - before I became a purpleVAIOholic.

 

That thinkpad keyboard design is so freakin' awesome. Probably the coolest design aspect ever in a laptop. It completely unique to the Thinkpad and cemented the idea that Thinkpads are superiorly engineered.

In fact, I think that particular thinkpad and an early Apple II are the only computers seen in the Museum of Modern Arts in the "early computer age" section.

 

It's been a long time since I last saw this

 

I think the Razer Blade looks really nice and cool. Just the price that bugs me.

 

^^^ And the (relatively) weak 555M that comes with it. A 17" laptop like that should have at least a 6770M, if not a 560M

 

That touchpad sure looks cool although I think the position would drive me nuts.

I still think this is one of the coolest looking notebooks, ancient as it is now. LG S1 Review (pics, specs)

The T1 looks beautiful to.

 

Dell Precision m4600. Hands down.
Envy 14 1st gen is close tho

 

Fugly.....

 

^^^ That green Alienware reminds me of the jacked-up Crown Vics with custom paint jobs depicting McDonalds, Spongebob (seriously), Hot Wheels, etc. Poor cars...

 

The S3 looks and feels really cheap in hand. The Asus ultrabook is far better.

 

I would like to see you do better.

Clearly coming from someone with no experience with these models. I would rather call "jacked-up" something made of plastic and limited upgrade possibilities (wifi cards?)

 

Alienwares are great if you're still 12

IMO this is the only garishly-coloured Dell that's worked of late:

 

rofl

 

Gonna agree with the OP. Sony Vaio Z series have some serious sleekness.

 

In my experience they look good but are put together pretty naff. Naff boards, naff GPU, Naff Ram, Naff optical drives. For the money you pay all you getare looks and mediocre hardware.

Admittedly some of them aren't quite as bad lately. In previous years they arent that great, Also the Drivers are a pain in the backside.

 

I guess compared to everyone else's opinion on what gets their blood going, I like gaudy as I've always been drawn to AW's aesthetics.

The plain, minimalist look of Apple and similarly designed laptops bore me to death and I simply can't see myself plopping down $1800+ for them.

 

That gets my vote.

 

I'll second that, of late, the Sony Vaio family rarely disappoints when it comes to style. Especially when you look at the Signature Collection.


However, to my eye, I think that there are some that look even better. For a while, the MacBook Air had really caught my eye. With its sleek looks and its small size without feeling flimsy. Despite its small size there was more heft to it than you might expect, which is something that I found appealing. Were I in a better place financially, I would be likely to be penning this post on one.

And regretted getting one after seeing the Netbook I discovered recently.

The Asus Zenbook. The long and the short of it is that Asus took all of the style features of the MacBook Air and made it better in a PC format. This one too has more heft to it than you might expect and it is ridiculously thin 9mm in the back and 3mm in the front. One possible possible drawback to some I see is that the specs would seem to indicate that all the components are hardwired to the MoBo... but for something of this size, I figure that is to be expected. Available with Intel i5 or i7 CPUs and they all have as a standard SATA III SSDs with a restore time of two seconds or less.

 

To be honest, Inap's "Yellow Lambo" paint is superior imo.

 

Inap's is powder coated, not painted

 

Hnnng.. Oh baby...
Seriously, stick a Quad Core i7 + 555/7690M, and a 1600x900 radiance screen in, and Id buy two

 

Hardly garish, and quite handsome if I may add.

 

Oh believe me, it was garish - but in a nice, borderline tasteful way. Worst thing was that a fancy sleeve I ordered specifically for carrying them around didn't actually fit in the end, so I never got rid of the pale blue sleeve I had...

 

17" MacBook pro with the matte display. Tiny bezel. Huge gorgeous screen. Slick unibody design that is very elagent, simple and uniform (none of that thick black bezel crap).

 

I stopped reading right here.^^

 

I actually prefer the matte as well - it's more in keeping with the overall female-first, uniformly boringly sleek design of the Apple stuff. The black bezel doesn't make much sense in terms of the design language, aside from it being necessarily that colour for the lipstick-on-a pig glossy layer.

Come to think of it, the only glossies I've owned are a couple of 15" I ordered by mistake and the 13"s. All my 17"s have been matte - obviously for functional reasons, but with the visual benefit too.

 

That is slick. I do prefer black exterior. If they made an Envy 15 like that I'd be sold too. The Envy 15 is a nice machine, quad core i7, HD 6790m, 1080p matte display, quite similar to my DV6, but a bit slimmer with backlit keyboard. Only thing it lacks is a blu-ray player.

 

Yeah Envy 15 is nice but the screen issue and battery life dissapoint me. It also seems that they gimped the GPU, with it getting scores almost 20% below the 555M or so on laptopmags review. I liked the Envys 14.5 inch screen the most. Its like 15.6, how its still big but not too big, and yet 1600x900 is still very high res for it. Honestly make the m14x a bit slimmer with the same exact specs but a 14.5 inch screen and Im cool.

 

I didn't know they offered 1600x900 for the Envy 14. Plus only 6630m? Come on, they should be able to manage a 6770m or 7690m. Then it would be a keeper.

 

The original Envy 14 offers a 5650 + i5 which was pretty good, along with a 1600x900 radiance screen. Now they only offer 1366x768, a 6630M and i7 dual I think. A 6650M could definitly fit at the moment though..

 

Firmly vote for the AW M18x : features + power = uber munchkin!

 

Certainly for the bling effect if nothing else.

 

Who says you need to be 12 to like it? Can't 60 year old men still like sports cars? I think Alienware is a sporty computer, if that makes any sense.

 

I knew this type of comment would be inevitable.

Last thing on my mind is the bling effect. I like the looks but the most important thing is what's under the hood and good luck trying to find a more powerful machine features and performance wise

Yes, it maybe flashy but you can always turn the lights off It's surely a sporty laptop especially when it comes to what it can do.

Thanks to all the bashing I no longer have to pay 2x for the name, it's actually cheaper than most gaming systems out there, if you play your cards right with Dell

 

When it comes to the look i like Sony Vaio notebooks a lot. especially if their design is white, although it gets dirty easily which is a big disadvantage after all...
Alienware looks nice too, but it's a personal preference after all, don't you think? I also wish that most notebooks would have more color options rather than white, black and silver.

 

In this case it's a 60 year old man liking a sports car.

 

Alienwares are like the Lamborghinis and Bugattis in performance, and yes, a little bit in aesthetics too. But if they didn't have all that lighting, it would be just an alien head in a laptop case.

In my opinion, the HP ENVY laptops, mostly the 1st and 2nd generation ones have really one of the best designs I've ever seen in a laptop.

 

Copied straight from Apple.

 

Yes, because only Apple is permitted to build a thin metal laptop with an island keyboard (copied straight from Sony, btw) and a pane of glass in front of the display.

:GEEK:

The HP Elitebook series would have been a better target for the title of "Apple Clone"