what is this

veritas · Feb 5, 2008

while checkin out my daily blogs i came across this.

RNDdave · Feb 5, 2008

Looks to me like a regular laptop that someone is running OS X on (or a theme I guess).

Is there a story behind the pics?

Dimitri · Feb 5, 2008

Looks like a PC laptop either running OSX or an OSX theme. That apple logo is clearly fake.

Der, I was beaten to the reply.

PowerBookG4 · Feb 5, 2008

to me it looks like a theme, look on the one shot of the computer with a "finder" window open.. it looks a lot more like a explorer window then a finder.

CL33Zero · Feb 5, 2008

Ya, looks neat. But not real

PowerBookG4 · Feb 5, 2008

after further investigation of the photos, it is indeed a windows computer (look at the keyboard, theres a windows key not an apple one)

harryb2448 · Feb 5, 2008

An Acer laptop with Leopard installed? Have been reports of this in New Zealand.

D3v1L80Y · Feb 5, 2008

That's not OS X. It's a skin for Windows. ( probably a version of FlyakiteOSX )

The shot of the Explorer window is a dead give-away.

Dude should just get a Mac and stop playing make-believe.

Weird Fish · Feb 5, 2008

That's hilarious.

I admit, when I was a Windows user, I arranged my icons on the bottom row so it would look like a makeshift Dock.

*ashamed*

mikepugs · Feb 5, 2008

Weird Fish said:
That's hilarious.

I admit, when I was a Windows user, I arranged my icons on the bottom row so it would look like a makeshift Dock.

*ashamed*

Hahahahahahahaha that's hilarious!

At first i thought maybe it was a custom built computer set up to run OSX or something but it's pretty clear it's a theme now. The apple logo must be a sticker or something, or just photoshopped.

I'm curious as to why they took the shots with a fish eye, kind of pointless, unless it was intentional to make it harder to identify.

cheesybanana · Feb 5, 2008

That is a big, ugly laptop. I would be ashamed if Apple made a laptop as mundane as that.

k3s · Feb 5, 2008

Yea i would say it is a theme but interesting he would go to lengths to do that.

Village Idiot · Feb 6, 2008

cheesybanana said:
That is a big, ugly laptop. I would be ashamed if Apple made a laptop as mundane as that.

Main Entry: mun·dane
Pronunciation: \ˌmən-ˈdān, ˈmən-ˌ\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English mondeyne, from Anglo-French mundain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus world
Date: 15th century
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
2 : characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary : commonplace <the mundane concerns of day-to-day life>

By that description I would count the MB and MBP as mundane. They're not flashy. White black and silver. There's realy nothing special about the layout other than the thin form factor and light up keyboard on the MBP. I guess you can at least count the MB as mundane. Now something like the look of the iMac or Mac Pro or Mac mini are not "ordinary"

But then again, I don't worry about the look of my computers too much. If that was the case, I'd have sent my MBP in to be laser etched to the red hot fiery place and back (I guess I'm probably not allowed to say the word on here without being reprimanded? It's not really cursing.)

cheesybanana · Feb 6, 2008

Village Idiot said:
Main Entry: mun·dane
Pronunciation: \ˌmən-ˈdān, ˈmən-ˌ\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English mondeyne, from Anglo-French mundain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus world
Date: 15th century
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
2 : characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary : commonplace <the mundane concerns of day-to-day life>

By that description I would count the MB and MBP as mundane. They're not flashy. White black and silver. There's realy nothing special about the layout other than the thin form factor and light up keyboard on the MBP. I guess you can at least count the MB as mundane. Now something like the look of the iMac or Mac Pro or Mac mini are not "ordinary"

But then again, I don't worry about the look of my computers too much. If that was the case, I'd have sent my MBP in to be laser etched to the red hot fiery place and back (I guess I'm probably not allowed to say the word on here without being reprimanded? It's not really cursing.)

MacBooks and MacBook Pros look far different than any other laptop you can find on the market. By that logic, it is not ordinary at all.

Neo · Feb 6, 2008

PowerBookG4 said:
after further investigation of the photos, it is indeed a windows computer (look at the keyboard, theres a windows key not an apple one)

and there's a backspace key, rather than a delete key...but surely we weren't ever actually thinking this was a Mac!

Village Idiot said:
Main Entry: mun·dane
Pronunciation: \ˌmən-ˈdān, ˈmən-ˌ\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English mondeyne, from Anglo-French mundain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus world
Date: 15th century
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
2 : characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary : commonplace <the mundane concerns of day-to-day life>

By that description I would count the MB and MBP as mundane. They're not flashy. White black and silver. There's realy nothing special about the layout other than the thin form factor and light up keyboard on the MBP. I guess you can at least count the MB as mundane. Now something like the look of the iMac or Mac Pro or Mac mini are not "ordinary"

Take the badging off a Gateway, Dell, and HP laptop. Mix them up and it's hard to tell them apart. Open a white MacBook, and you can ID it from across a crowded room. There is something special about the Mac gestalt.