Name a sexier computer.
Name a sexier computer
Carson Miller
Jeremiah Cox
That looks absolutely hideous.
Where can I get one?
Jonathan Long
My computer.
Jonathan Torres
*blocks ur path*
Xavier Thomas
Alexander Richardson
Ez Pz
Levi Cook
This design is unmatched to this day.
Evan Long
Christian Brooks
>That disgusting keyboard
Ayden Jackson
Boomers have zero taste
Brandon Ramirez
You know whats sexier? Performance power.
David Lopez
Angel Cruz
Don't forget the 1000 dollar cheese wheel
Henry Lopez
Old thing good
Evan Gray
old thing bad
new thing good
Elijah Watson
this
and this:
will always take the cake.
Brayden Diaz
Fug, gimme gimme gimme gimme!
Jace Hughes
In terms of design, objectively yes in the general case. Design and quality costs money, and are luxuries fundamentally incompatible with the unending race to the bottom that is commodification.
Samuel Green
Ahem
Jonathan Moore
>posting plastic shells instead of actual computers
how embarassing
Noah Smith
>Ahem
Go jump off a bridge.
Aaron Gray
really don't get why either of these are so worshipped on Jow Forums, they look so toyish and unexpandable and the hardware isn't really all that impressive.
Levi James
it looks like a tape player from the 80s
Logan Butler
>Name a sexier computer.
aesthetic.
Jordan Wilson
yeah but I mean their aesthetic is kind of lame 2bh, they just look like cheap 80s home AV appliances
Jacob Ramirez
they sexy tho.
its also true that tastes are different
Owen Jackson
sure
guess it's just gay to see the same three obscure japanese home gaming consoles posted as the apex of aesthetics when there's so much good shit out htere
still wouldn't complain if someone dropped a nicer x68k in my lap anyway
Nathaniel Young
They're ugly, obtuse hunks of crap.
They think a million little pointless bevels makes it look "futuristic".
There are as many design inconsistencies as there are parts, which is to say way too many.
They aged like shit, and they didn't even look good to begin with.
You've seen so many "retro futuristic" posts on \reddit that you forgot that they were being ironic.
And I'm not saying I don't like this stuff. I love this shit.
I just view it as adorably corny. The dinkiest little pieces of crap that barely had enough computational power to store all the plain text posts in this thread in an era where people desperately wanted to live in the future, and gave every calculator their best shot at what they thought "the future" would look like. This apparently meaning "lots of bevels"
You have to have your head unbelievably far up your ass to look at what is posted in this thread and think that it is more tasteful than something like an Apple product. Apparently like this guy
Cameron Turner
you sound like the kind of guy that unironically buys a fractal design case
Caleb Young
You believe that the maximalist design of right now where there's pointless extraneous detail reflective of the time period is in worst taste than a piece of technology from the 1970s with pointless sepia tone colors and wavy stylized text.
If your reason is more intelligent than "old thing good", you haven't said it.
Kayden Powell
What's this ?
Oliver Cook
what are you even rambling about lmao, stop projecting so hard
we get that you only like it for superficial reasons and you feel ashamed of it but others ITT just like nice things, of which there still are today but there are definitely a lot more of from eras when four figures before inflation was considered entry level and people actually still cared about hardware to boot.
Charles Butler
you sound like a gay minimalist designer who live in a starbucks. reading your post is painful like living your soulless life. your presence on this world its a "design inconsistency" and its aging like milk.
David Davis
Apple™ macbook pro 2018
Camden Price
what real graphics workstations looked like while SGI was still just making terminals
Isaac Moore
>what are you even rambling about lmao
You being pretentious
>stop projecting so hard
Projecting what?
>others ITT just like nice things, of which there still are today but there are definitely a lot more of from eras when four figures before inflation was considered entry level and people actually still cared about hardware to boot.
If you say "Fractal designs good products. Also, I enjoy old futuristic designs of yesteryear" then I'll leave this thread alone
But if what you're trying to people me is "The modern, popular thing with a futuristic design is for plebians. Quality design is this casette player from the 1980s with embossed text and pointless bevels" then you're levels of pretentious that I cannot just sluff off with a crude depiction of a mentally impaired Wojak.
Jayden Ramirez
nobody's being pretentious here but you and your seething walls of text about shit nobody's posting lmao
just have sex already
Michael Rivera
>you sound like a gay minimalist designer who live in a starbucks.
I thought I liked "gamer gear" with a million little pointless details
Your accusations are completely inconsistent. The only core tenant being "It's modern"
I'm waiting for you to explain why this is a bad thing
Brody Ward
just for you I'm gonna post another 70s futuristic embossed cassette player
Colton King
>name sexier
Pic.
/thread
Robert Bell
>70s futuristic embossed cassette player
>it isn't one
Is this your argument?
You know one of the calling cards of autism is inability to recognize figures of speech and just taking things in the most literal sense.
I'm going to go back to saying that I think these things look good.
I think these things look good because they look like byproducts of yesteryear, and I like things that look hyper advanced but also quaint.
But I think any kind of nuance is overstating the complexity of Fedora Tippington up there, that legitimately believes this 1993 supercomputer with guady pointless detail on every available surface that serves no purpose except looking as cool as possible to a 14 year old in 1993 is of higher design calibre than an iPhone.
Christopher Gray
just shut the fuck up already you pretentious twat
Josiah Bennett
modern its not "bad" it goes well with the times, without a soul. modern is generic. modern look all the same, modern is a consequence of voting with our pockets buying not what we like, but what others have. old things were designed by team of engineers who toked risks, not by marketing teams of npcs who conduct social studies to determinate how a things should look, even if they dont like it and too many times the aesthetic design limit the functions.
so go off yourself already and buy your 999$ pro monitor stand designed for people like you.
Justin Fisher
Josiah Baker
Ignoring survivorship bias and how most cases aged like milk, pretty much everything x86 made by IBM has aged like fine wine.
Charles Brooks
If I bought this piece of shit and it was fully functional, what is the most I would be able to do with it?
Benjamin Johnson
You're projecting and whining so hard it isn't even funny anymore. Have sex.
Play games, compute things and process information. You know, stuff a computer is made to do.
James Flores
Jeremiah Ramirez
I don't like new z8. z6 looks better but it's also not even close to z600 design vise.
Thomas Perez
>that black and grey with red accent
god tier aesthetics
hmngghh
Asher Fisher
>reddit
nice blogpost you massive fag. Go back.
Daniel Jones
What did i mean by this?
Luke Jackson
my brain
Levi Jenkins
Caleb Martinez
Hideous touchbar aside, it looks nice. That one on the other hand, isn't.
this is probably the best.
Alexander Carter
Shit are these still being made? I guess no, but imagine if someone made an entire computer in the keyboard like this today. ARM / MIPS CPU + 2GB of RAM + 8 GB SSD + Linux / BSD + ports for USB, HDMI, VGA and all other shit. You can plug it in your TV and install Lakka to play retro games. Or run a home server or whatever. I think it's a cool idea.
I wonder if someone thought of it before me.
Jack Hall
We can only dream
2001,2011 & 2014
some were built
turned out some guy was sued by MSX and had to stop building them
Elijah Myers
This
Adrian Cruz
Imagine the power consumption...
Leo Hernandez
Liam Cook
>modern its not "bad" it goes well with the times, without a soul. modern is generic. modern look all the same, modern is a consequence of voting with our pockets buying not what we like, but what others have
I agree
The piece of logic that you're not really computing is that all of this was "modern" at some point
I don't think it's a pure coincidence that everyone in this thread thinks everything here that came out in the past looks "so sexy" and the one guy that posted a Macbook Pro got told to fuck off
Isaiah Allen
winner
Liam Lee
Literally any Amiga.
Liam Flores
That's a keyboard
John Watson
>that lgbt stripe
Jacob Powell
ur mom
Jonathan Hill
>reddit
>apple products are "tasteful"
>retarded incoherent blogposting
you cant make this shit up
Sebastian Baker
(You)
Jeremiah Jones
nah thats a computer
Luis Jackson
Do newfags actually think they can /thread their own posts?
Nathan Carter
That Nekochan was a shithole and thank god it's dead.
Jose Thomas
aww yes
Jason Stewart
these teenagers don't know what good electronics looks like
Connor Lopez
/thread
Austin Martin
you could literally just put any SBC into a keyboard, cut a slot for usb ports and an sd card slot or whatever, replace the usb cable with an hdmi cable...
Aaron Gutierrez
pi4
Bentley Myers
Sepia is without rival the most meaningful tone color of them all. Everything you said is wrong.
Jaxon Ward
What's a computer?
Tyler Ramirez
>Name a sexier computer.
Here you go buddy
Carter Cooper
its a counting device
where you would normally use pebbles to record the number of cows in a field, you'd use a computer
computers store numbers.
Henry Ramirez
>render because you wouldn't be able to afford the real thing neither then nor today
Liam Jones
turbo xt. pro. v8.
with swivel & colored beads
Henry Collins
>This design is unmatched to this day.
Meanwhile in reality the only, single reason this was successful was the price - affordable entry point to computing for masses.
Isaiah Cook
>old thing good
>replies to about the newest mac
Henry Davis
sinclair z80
Justin Wilson
next
Lincoln Nelson
absolubtely
Connor Long
note there aren't any PCs in this thread
pcs were always shitty tin boxes (no design, same as the OS on them)
Elijah Torres
Kayden Butler
>note there aren't any PCs in this thread
(yes, that's a pc, not a sparc box)
Jonathan Nguyen
the machine used to render terminator II
Brandon Russell
Noah Wright
>laptop is not PC
Ok brainlet, have a taste of "fuck you"
Gavin Hughes
this is cosplay. real cyberpunks use thinkpads.
Brandon Cooper
how are pc-compatible laptops not pc's?
Justin Robinson
heres the PC entry
Isaiah Morris
>that le gamer font
That will be a no to me, anonzzo
Luis Jones
hotwheels man
fast. toy OS included
Aiden Thomas
That color is called "Beige" and there is a very important reason for it.
You see Germany had rules about colors allowed in professional office environments, which basically said they had to be neutral to make the best conditions for workers health. And Germany was a huge part of the European market. So computers companies had a 3 options.
1. Make all computers a German approved neutral color to sell to all markets
2. Don't sell computers in Europe
3. Run two separate productions lines for the different markets dramatically raising costs.
Beige was cheaper to make then black or white at the time and it met all requirements. Thus everything was beige.
This all got disrupted with ThinkPad's TrackPoint (Red dot), as it turned in to a complex battles as the designers refused to compromise on anything, even color selection. So they fought Germany's rules and even IBM, as red was reserved for emergency off switches per IBM guidelines. It was eventually relabeled "magenta" in the specs list, with the designer swearing it was not red but magenta and thus did not violate the rules. After enough people testified that it was in fact magenta and this had all been a misunderstanding the computer was approved for production and sale.
see above
Tyler White
thought that was the 'vectrex' .. vector graphics based games machine