Macbook Look-a-Like...i think not

[batman123]

http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/general/general/macbook-alike_breaks_cover

Read the article, it says that it looks like a macbook...but forgive me if i am wrong but the only thing that could be classed as the same is that it is white...the Macbook is by far superior and looks so much better!

What u think?

Batman.

 

[Sesshi]

External optical drive... another company misses the plot.

 

[ghall]

It's dead ugly. Whoever designed that should be shot (or at the very least, fired)!

 

[Macmaniac]

Um no, not even close!

 

[mkrishnan]

I'm sure that some comment about swine and pearls is appropriate, but...

Yeah, to me it poses slightly more than a passing configurational resemblance to the MacBook (ports on the side, camera, white, etc), but not a very deep one. It does also look rather a bit like the Asus white small notebook, and that Asus was widely seen as a bite-the-hand-that-feeds rip-off of Apple's then upcoming MacBook when it came out... (since Asus is an Apple OEM).

 

[supremedesigner]

Eew!

 

[chairguru22]

of all notebooks out there, the acer ones look the most like the apple ones.

 

[iGary]

Hey, I think it's sweet.

 

[Makosuke]

Being that this is basically an ultralight (12" screen, external optical, 1.5KG weight), it's not much of a comparison to the MacBook or vice versa. And yes, it's white, the ports are on the side, and it has a built-in camera... the rest of the "look alike" is where?

I see no problem with it as an ultralight (though external optical=not worth it to me), but it's a rather odd and generally inaccurate comparison to be making.

 

[zephead]

They have absolutely no right to claim that even slightly resembles a MacBook.

 

[CoMpX]

I hate that gigantic white border on the top where the camera is. F-U-G-L-Y! And how could they not fit an optical drive in there? Just proves how talented Apple is.

 

[FullmetalZ26]

the rest of the "look alike" is where?

"You also get an integrated webcam and a motion sensor that stops the hard drive spinning when the machine is dropped"

Don't know about you, but when I read this it sounded like it came right out of an Apple products page (minus the poor grammar.)

In any case, I kind of like the idea of a leave-at-home optical drive. It'd be nice if they went back to the 'removeable' configuration where the optical drive could be replaced with an extra battery or weight-saver dummy plug.