Flutterby™! : Marketing

I've been quite enjoying the Mac OS user experience, but there are a bunch of little things about the hardware which make me glad I'm not an owner. The hinges on PowerBooks seem to be consistently weak; the PowerBook G4 I'm carrying doesn't close consistently enough let me know it's sleeping, and I sat in on at least one conversation at WWDC between several people with the more articulated hinges who were discussing solutions. Those sorts of little engineering details.

On the other hand, I was hanging with the rat boys and one of their friends had an Alienware laptop, and that sucker looked cooler than the PowerBook. Didn't ask about Linux drivers (and he probably wouldn't have known anyway, he's a gaming guy), but yesterday's Penny Arcade made me think that maybe Alienware is the sort of company that would offer to "...ship a machine with two hundred gigs of meticulously organized porn striped to a three disk RAID", and this would probably be a positive thing for their customer base.