Hello Robert,
> due to its rounded-off shape
This design style has come into practice in the design of many products like
portable boom boxes, etc. and even more recently designed automobiles have
more rounded, and less angular or rectangular, designs. Doesn't do much for
me either.
Best Regards
At 11:33 AM 7/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hopefully this isn't too off-topic, but a thought just occured to me
>about computers that some may, or may not, want to collect in the
>future, which aren't classics yet. It seems that many of the newer
>computers have been designed with uncollectability, as well as a high
>degree of user-annoyance, in mind. Somehow, either some marketing
>idiots, or clueless enginers, got the idea to design computer
>equipment that's unstackable due to its rounded-off shape... the iMacs
>and some Compaq PeeCees (e.g. Presario 4814) come to mind. Is anyone
>going to be seriously interested in collecting computer equipment that
>can't be stacked, and does anyone actually find equipment that can't
>be stacked, or have anything stacked on top of it (not even a monitor
>or books, etc), to be other than an annoyance?
>
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