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highinfidelity wrote:How I wish that things were still designed that way and didn't have the shape of a suppository that everything seems to have today.
I can't agree more with you two, guysAlex Varanese wrote:The irony is that all post-modern, smugly self-referential retro porn aside, I'd gladly trade in my immaculately designed 21st century gadgets for these hideously clunky, faux-wood-paneled pieces of über-kitsch. Sorry, Apple.
...and in turn you have no idea how much I agree with you on this one!eslapion wrote:highinfidelity wrote:How I wish that things were still designed that way and didn't have the shape of a suppository that everything seems to have today.
You have no idea how much I agree with you on this one!
I have recently switched from a Pentium D tower and I used the same keyboard on it I did for the last 25 years: Good ole' IBM.
Since the new i7 tower I now have uses only USB keyboards, I went for a HyperX alloy FPS which generates very much the same sound and feeling as the 1994 IBM PS/2.
https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/keyboar ... g-keyboard
We're getting off topic here...highinfidelity wrote:Last but not least, I have at home a laptop which is now 15 years old and definitely at its end-of-the-line under all aspects, but that I can't replace as all laptop keyboards today suck. The chiclet keyboard of Sinclair Spectrum home computers were good by comparison. I also have seen laptops made with real mechanical keyboards for gaming, but aside of being very costy, they are also too large and too bulky and full of stuff I probably don't need and would never use. I also fear having assistence problems in case somthing fails, they're too much a "niche" product. I see no decent alternatives, though.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2884331 ... board.html
Indeed, but the VIC colour question has been widely and fully answered so it's OK to pass to something else methinks.eslapion wrote:We're getting off topic here...
I'm glad it works for you mate, but that's exactly the kind of completely flat, un-ergonomic keyboard that I'm trying to avoid.I've been the proud owner of this little guy since spring of 2011. Even used it for my presentation in Toronto in Dec. 2017.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... _16_4.html
Pretty decent keyboard and good performances but I do admit it is relatively large; then again, that's the way I like a laptop.
Hahaha!highinfidelity wrote:How I wish that things were still designed that way and didn't have the shape of a suppository that everything seems to have today.ral-clan wrote:That designer is extremely talented, by the way. Love those designs.orion70 wrote:I do like the 70s aesthetics, which also happen to appear in many works of my favourite graphic designer. In Italy, many wonderful objects were produced back then. But I'd say, in the whole world.
That's what you get when everything is 'streamlined 3D design'. Really blocky stuff should make a comeback, the rounded stuff is so over exposed at this point. Fond memories of the vintage parking lot...Mozartkügel wrote:... Really blocky stuff should make a comeback, the rounded stuff is so over exposed at this point.
