I don’t want to get into a discussion of WHY I like this laptop. That’s sort of beyond the point of the thread. But I do, and I loved it. And the Sony Store and Future Shop both proudly proclaimed that the exact same thing comes in silver. Which I bought!
But I returned it to the store promptly when I realized that it was in fact, NOT the same as the pink floor model. The silver one has a bilingual keyboard, which to those of you in America, means that buttons have all the French accents written on the buttons next to their default characters, in neon green and pink. More importantly, the shift keys are super cramped, to make room for more diacritics on each side. So, instead of capitalizing letters, I yped \every \single \capital \letter \like his. We were not amused!
Yes, I could probably learn to adapt, get used to it, blah blah blah…I don’t wanna. It seems unfair when there’s a perfect model for me to have get stuck with a sucky shift key. It frustrated me to the point where I gave the pink laptop a long hard stare down…
So, to the poll question…
I think that if you’re not 14 years old and a girl, bringing a pink laptop about with you looks silly. Would you own one?
I inherited a pink phone cover from my fianceé. Everybody has a funny comment to make at first, but after a while, they got used to it, and so did I.
They make “skins” for laptops, if it’s that big of an issue for it. If I liked everything about a computer and it happened to be pink, I would have a pink computer.
Why is that? (I know I said no computer chat sans the pink bits, but now you’ve got me curious…I only vaguely know the difference between 32 and 64 bit Windows from my XP days…)
I can’t figure out what The Niply Elder is talking about. Now that driver issues have mostly been sorted out, the only major difference between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows is that 64-bit versions can access more than 4GB of RAM. Since that computer only has 2 GB of RAM, there’s absolutely no reason to get 64-bit Windows. If anything, it’ll be a bit faster than 64-bit would be.
As a girl, I’d consider it if I was single and it was a good color of pink, and it was otherwise perfect. However, I’m not single and my husband would be using it sometimes, and he would be displeased with my choice. So, no.
I’m a woman and have suffered to allergy to pink from a young age, but Middlebro is definitely a guy and the last cellphone he bought (with no intervention from his children, he happened to like the model) is bubblegum pink; he says he’d have no problem using a pink laptop, a pink hardhat (he’s a construction foreman) or a pink car. It’s hard to know which of the Kidlets likes that phone more, He Who Wants To Wear Pink (my 5yo nephew has a standing threat to his mother than when he’s grown up he’ll wear pink and skirts and dresses and it ain’t fair that girls can wear trousers or skirts and have short hair or long and he can’t!) or the Pink Princess.