Bottom Ten List: Worst of the Laptops
I usually skip reviews by Dvorak; he's never approved of Macs. He doesn't like Apple's products and judges them differently than he would any other company's product.
Take, in the above link, his review of the early iBook:
3. Apple iBook (1999). This is the machine that I ridiculed in a column where I described it as a "girly" computer, literally meaning "for girls," as in 7-year-olds, since it has a Barbiesque look to it. This got me into a heap of trouble with politically correct Apple users who think the use of the word girly was a bad thing in itself. Even Salon magazine ragged on me about this since apparently someone had stupidly bought one and needed to justify his or her purchase. The computer came in various colors and was oversized (an Apple theme) and underpowered. It looked like a toilet seat.
Every other machine was ridiculed on technical or useability reasons. This machine, he didn't like how it was designed... and it got third place. Is he right in that it looked like a Barbie laptop? No question. He's right on the money with that. But that alone doesn't make the laptop crappy, and would hardly make it #3 worst of all time. One word in that whole paragraph has to do with the computer's capabilites: "underpowered". The rest is a diatribe about how people didn't like his opinion.
Well, here's one more person who you can rail at, Mr. Dvorak: get a life. Apple's no better or worse than any other computer company. Stop acting like a petulant kid and look at the computers for themselves, please.
Posted by Ted Stevko at August 3, 2004 09:00 PM | TrackBack