Style Or Design? What Dell Learned From Apple
My day job as a system administrator and support for PCs, Macs, and Linux servers means I get to play with all the new toys.
One that caught my eye recently is Dell’s new Z600. It’s not as slick or elegant looking as Apple’s MacBook Air or the Dell Adamo, but it’s a worthy competitor to the high end of Apple’s MacBook Pro line. What has Dell learned from Apple’s success in the notebook market? Style over substance? Design matters? Feature creep? Whatever it is, Dell hasn’t learned enough.
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Seele said:
You have hit the nail on the head indeed, Jeffrey. In my past life as a designer, we had to fight very hard to be known as such, because many self-styled “designers” were little more than “stylists”, with scant regards for usability, practicality, and even something as simple as whether it can indeed be produced or not: all these are issues considered by the designer as well.
We often hear Windows/PC apologists saying Apple make “stylish” computers, as if implying that Apple computers are all style without substance: hence the “laptop hunter” advertising campaign, “Apple Tax” theory, etc. As long as the man in the street does not know the difference between design and styling, such misconceptions will carry on being propagated.