Comment by raffael_de
4 days ago
There is something about the classic Thinkpad design which strikes me as more than just nostalgia. More like a Jungian archetype. Honest, virtuous and sturdy. The ultimate example of form follows function. The Stroke 8 of computers. A masculine counterpart to the femininity of Apple products (nttawwi).
The irony is, back when Steve Jobs first came back to Apple from NeXT, the Apple press on at least one occasion complained of him using a ThinkPad, even stating it was running Windows 95, w/o considering the NeXT compatibility list, that that model was on it, and that it actually ran NeXTstep and Lighthouse Design's Concurrence.app for presentations.
> More like a Jungian archetype. Honest, virtuous and sturdy.
+1, comparison of the day for sure!