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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Cameron" data-source="post: 82633" data-attributes="member: 42">Re: The SM58...They are more trim than many of the other PC laptops. But it still astounds me that none of the non-Apple laptops have tried to really make their products slick and strong like the current crop of Mac stuff. At my day job, I have a plethora of Mac and PC laptops I test our products on. The high end HP and Dell workstation laptops are hideous, heavy, cumbersome, plastic-y, bulky (and just downright ugly) computers. The power supplies are monstrous and they&#039;re still using dumb pin style power connectors that will break off or knock your laptop off a table if you trip on the wire. Apple has been using a magnetic based power connector for years now that just disconnects in the event of a wire trip or pull, a brilliant concept. And the power supplies weigh a fraction of the HP, Dell, and Lenovo machines.The folks here that run Windows instead of Mac OS still get the Macbook Pros and run Bootcamp with Win7 or Win8 because they&#039;re so much slicker and thin. The PC laptop makers really need to get some better designers for their stuff. It&#039;s somewhat baffling to me that they don&#039;t care or just don&#039;t get it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Cameron, post: 82633, member: 42"] Re: The SM58... They are more trim than many of the other PC laptops. But it still astounds me that none of the non-Apple laptops have tried to really make their products slick and strong like the current crop of Mac stuff. At my day job, I have a plethora of Mac and PC laptops I test our products on. The high end HP and Dell workstation laptops are hideous, heavy, cumbersome, plastic-y, bulky (and just downright ugly) computers. The power supplies are monstrous and they're still using dumb pin style power connectors that will break off or knock your laptop off a table if you trip on the wire. Apple has been using a magnetic based power connector for years now that just disconnects in the event of a wire trip or pull, a brilliant concept. And the power supplies weigh a fraction of the HP, Dell, and Lenovo machines. The folks here that run Windows instead of Mac OS still get the Macbook Pros and run Bootcamp with Win7 or Win8 because they're so much slicker and thin. The PC laptop makers really need to get some better designers for their stuff. It's somewhat baffling to me that they don't care or just don't get it. [/QUOTE]

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