From: rich@example.invalid
Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On 20 Sep 2025 14:01:48 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:
>>> I suppose they might look dull if you haven't been paying attention
>>> to case design over the last 10+ years, but the point is they're
>>> different to what currently exists in the market. And for a lot of
>>> people who build PCs they're novel because they weren't born when
>>> this design was last in vogue.
>>
>> It was *never* in any kind of "vogue". It was what the PC makers
>> came up with because they didn't know any better. When Steve Jobs
>> rejoined Apple and came up with the first iMacs and iBooks, that was
>> when the rest of the PC industry woke up to the idea that, just
>> maybe, it was time to put some decent industrial design into their
>> products.
>
> Gah, that's when they started with all the shiny polished plastic
> finishes that I *hate*. Impractical computer equipment sold as
> fashion accessories. I never bought it from Apple and I don't like
> being forced to buy similar junk from every other company who are
> stupidly cloning them now.
Sadly, that is a lot of the 'design'. "Fashion accessory" design and
nothing more.
> Efficiency doesn't mean replacing stuff every year just because the
> case is all scratched, chipped and smudged.
But it does directly impact the yearly sales treadmill. When the
upgrade treadmill of ten times the performance every nine months began
to slow down, the makers desperately needed some way to keep those
sales numbers artificially inflated.
Enter the "fashion accessory" world where the makers try to convince
everyone to 'upgrade' every nine months, not for performance increases
which are paltry now as compared to twenty years ago, but because the
nine month old look of the prior box is now passe (or scratched,
chipped and smudged).
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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