Nice engineering, but I still dislike it because it's a Mac and Mac OS and conforming to the "Mac is cool crowd"...When it's not cool by any means. It's just a different choice in the market place that has unfortunately gained all this annoying pop culture caché. And that logo would bug me to no end. I would end up running bootcamp and having a PC installation (neccessary because of my preferred software and interests that don't run on Mac OS) with a custom GUI and figuring out some way to remove all trademarks from the casing or covering them up. I hate trademarks unless they are my own design or art.
I am a big fan of good aesthetics, innovative engineering, and sleek industrial design. I just don't like the fact that you are basically forced to go with one choice and that is the Mac for features like this. It doesn't mean I won't adopt them. I love that Macs are x86 architecture now. I've been hacking my Mac keyboard to work in Windows and even having the F13-F19 buttons doing useful things. Even the eject button and media controls and on scree displayed icons work in Windows now.
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