Are looks important when choosing a laptop? Yes they are. Here are the five best-looking machines on the market:
1. Sony Vaio – any of them. Superbly sleek, beautiful screens, top class
2. Toshiba Qosimo G30 – modern, shiny, powerful; the laptop equivalent to an Audi A8
3. Asus W5000A – a new kid on the Irish scene, it’s started with a gallop in this desirable entry
4. Acer Ferrari – novelty red factor works surprisingly well
5. Apple PowerMac G4 – the much imitated titanium style still looks good but is beginning to age
* A special ‘ugly award’ goes to Dell which, other than its admittedly tasty X1, has a remarkable aptitude for fashioning dull, grey, plastic laptops.
So the Leonovo series of laptops don't rate a look-in or even an ugly mention? There's one that looks more titanium than #5 PowerMac G4.
Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | April 12, 2006 at 05:47 AM
Yes, the Lenovo is fairly ugly (am testing it at the moment). No, it's not more titanium-looking than the PowerMac; it's a light grey plastic effect, a la Dell.
Posted by: Adrian | April 12, 2006 at 03:47 PM
The PowerBOOK G4 is old news.
Get a new MacBook Pro. Looks like a Mac. BootCamp it and you have a dual boot kick-ass dual-core Windows laptop for when you need it and a Mac for when you want to enjoy computing :)
If I wasn't a Mac nut, I'd buy Sony. I would never part with cash for a Qosmio though. It's shiny, but it feels cheap and they're IMMENSE.
As for the Acer. *snigger* Vroom vroom!
Posted by: MJ | April 13, 2006 at 04:21 PM