Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:06:28 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] New and old Libbys and sports cars reviewed
>>>Aaaahh... "beauty is the mind..." ...huh? 'Black with square corners and hard >edges' vs. 'blue-grey with rounded corners and >sloped edges'. >>*shrug* perhaps I don't like the blue-grey with bubbly rounded corners and plasticy >sloping edges. The new Libby seems to look more serious and professional than the >Picturebook (which looks like a cross between a toy organizer and an overgrown >Casseopia) *waits for the spam!*. >It's not that bad, nothing like the Barbie Mac notebook in person. (hmmm... I may >retract that... see below) ANYTHING is better than that Barbie Doll's Handbag poor-excuse-for-a-computer mac. >>The contrasting colors are nice too IMHO. I dunno, the new Libby just look sleeker >and 'faster' than the PictureBook from the pictures I've seen. Then again I'm the >sort of person that prefers the lines of a DeLorian to the bubbles of a Beetle ... >My comparison of the Sony would be more towards a '67 Lamborghini Miura, '63 E-Jag, >or my old '72 TVR Vixen... but I can see the square/round stylistic comparison. Despite my references to the DeLorian I'm not that familiar with sports cars of the era, just seeing the souped up DeLorian in Back to the Future was enough for me ;-) (of course this also explains a bit of that cyborg thing I was going on about earlier ... hehe) >>not that I've got anywhere near the wealth to do more than just look at either >vehicle :-( > >Heh... you'd love getting in and out of it in huge downpours with the time it takes >those gull wing doors to open and close! > http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/1166/ You don't drive that thing in the rain, you zip forward or back in time to before or after the rainstorm ;-) >>>P.S. For those who don't already know, URLs are: >>New Libretto (Japanese, just look at the pictures ;-) >>http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/pc/catalog/libretto/010507l1/index_j.htm > >Wow... it looks HUGE under that model's arm... though the girl is doing an admirable >job of competing with the L2 for attention. What nerds we be ;-P Hehe ... like I said, it IS bigger than the older Libbys - what struck me when I first saw it was that it looked like a Satellite 30CDT top on a Portege base with the front cut off but done with style. >>Sony PictureBook (they seem to have removed most of the pictures that they did have >though) http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/picturebook/index.shtml > >I had problems with MSIE 4.72 not being able to execute the javascript necessary to >pop up the window for "Demo' there where the one picture is. I had to use Netscape. Actually, if you click on the picture on the main page there is a bigger version there. >Found a lot of shots here: >http://www.farstand.com/pcg-c1/ > >.... But man... That top shot from the rear showing that ugly blue strip across the >back killed it for me! Kind of childish of me... reminiscent of when I saw my 5th >grade girlfriend at home with a cold in her PJs sniffling and blowing her nose. We >are a silly lot ay? Thats actually an older version ... the newer version doesn't look quite as messy (but its still too toy-like for my liking) >I still like the rest of the lines though. I got awfully tired of all of the boxy >car designs that dominated the corporate downsizing of the 70s and 80s. Boxy done well still looks good ... - Raymond ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
