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- From: mikew@net-link.net (Mike Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker (A1200Walker)
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 06:26:53 GMT
- Organization: DC Productions
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- References: <ivans-1803960422130001@dialup63.syd1.zeta.org.au> <4133.6651T177T352@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4ikjr5$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com> <DoHu4A.Hnp@ecf.toronto.edu>
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- In article <DoHu4A.Hnp@ecf.toronto.edu> tsangc@ecf.toronto.edu (TSANG Calum Thomas) writes:
- > In article <4ikjr5$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com>,
- > Matt Harrell <mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com> wrote:
- > >I personally like the looks of the preproduction Walker. I think that
- > >AT needs to distance the Amiga from the rest of the PC pack. I doubt
- > >that they are going to break into the business world with the Amiga,
- > >After all, many of the high-end workstations such as SGI and Sun have
- > >had rather unusual shapes and colors. I think that many people
- > >associate this with "power".
- >
- >
- > SGI Indy: Turquoise "split diagonal" box pizza box
- >
- > Sun SPARC: Beige with light purple accent
- > wide pizza box (Sparc 5,10,20) or small
- > system unit (Sparc IPC etc)
- >
- > NeXT: All black, flat magnesium pizza box or cube
- >
- > Amigawalker: Black bowlingball bag
- >
- > I really have to say, when I compare these machines with this new
- > Amiga Walker prototype, I don't get a feeling of power. I get a sickly
- > feeling of some German guy going nuts with his CNC machine, drilling out
- > a funny shape. I think this new prototype is plain ugly, and shouldn't
- > be compared to the contemporary stylings of these great workstations.
- >
- > My immediate reaction was: Doesn't that look like a early
- > eighties arcade console, what was it called....Vectrix or something? The
- > one that used vector graphics.
- >
- > Even the bland A1200 case is better than this. Or the plain
- > A4000 case. This prototype doesn't even MATCH the A3000 for styling.
-
- I have to agree. It's good that it doesn't look just like every other PC on
- the market, but it's not good that it looks like an antique radio. Funky
- colors are good (Every time I see an SGI machine I start dreaming in color).
- Creative shapes, to an extent are good. Rounded corners and such are also
- nice (again, see SGI machines), but style has to give way to practicality at
- some point. A computer must still be more or less rectangular, or you will
- have to waste lots of space when you put it on a desk. This rounded top
- thing won't allow you to put anything on top of it, and it will look silly
- standing a square box (monitor, drive case, speakers, whatever) next to it
- because the sides aren't straight either. What good is a neat looking shape
- (not that I think the "antique radio" design is neat) if it's so incredibly
- impractical? Give me a regular pizza box with nice colors and rounded edges
- any day.
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