“Inspired” by Apple

Chromebook Pixel: You’re already thinking it; I don’t need to say anything.

(image from The Verge)

Lenovo IdeaPad U310: I do love the fact that in the “pro” column is the fact that it is “very pretty”. Also it would appear that the trackpad actually works. Wonders will never cease. It’s not a MacBook Pro copy, though. Power button on the other side. Also, different colour. And…erm… *awkward pause*

(image from The Verge - in case you are wondering, the reason that these are always from The Verge is that I stopped following Gizmodo, Engadget, Techmeme, et al., as they were all basically the same thing. The Verge takes the best photos anyway.)

New MacBook Pro with Retina Display: *Homer drool*

Your move, everyone else.

(image from The Verge)

HP Elitebook Folio: Oh man. HP have been busy. Really busy. Not “busy” in the biblical sense, but “busy” in the “Shitsticks! We’d better steal some more designs from Apple!” sense. If that’s a sense of the word “busy”. If it wasn’t, it is now.

HP suck. And not in a good, biblical way.

(image from The Verge)

Samsung Series 9 Trackpad: Looks familiar. Surely, surely - surely - they will have made it work just as well as the one on the MacBook Pro? Surely?

What do you think? Here’s The Verge:

The Elan pad has a nice smooth physical surface, and most Windows gestures work pretty well, including the critical two-finger scrolling (complete with inertia) and both three- and four-finger swipes for multitasking maneuvers. Still, it’s not nearly as responsive as I’d like, and using it is a bit of a chore. Compared to a MacBook or some of the better Windows laptops we’ve used, tap-to-click has a slight delay, pinch to zoom is extremely awkward, and, most importantly, plain ol’ cursor tracking (you know, just moving around your pointer) feels abnormally slow even with the sensitivity turned up. It’s servicable and I’ve used far worse, and Samsung says the drivers may improve from here on out. The laptop doesn’t ship until April, and I’m already using drivers that are at least one revision newer than the original.

Well that sounds FUCKING EXCELLENT, doesn’t it? As Lord Gruber pointed out in relation to the Dell XPS 13 “good thing you don’t need to use the trackpad much on a notebook.” See also the HP Envy 15.

(image from The Verge)

LG A540: “She Blinded Me With Science” trilled 80s oddball popster Thomas Dolby. “They Underwhelmed Me With A MacBook Pro knock-off with 3D specs that I don’t care about”, I trilled.

(submitted by Nick Heer, image from The Verge)

Razer Blade: It’s been a while since we* featured anything that wasn’t a direct and blatant copy of an iPhone or an iPad. In fact, given the clockwork like regularity of their release, I propose a new measurement for time - the number of pathetic, crappy, underpowered, unusable tablets announced between any two dates.

So for the first time in 56,988,999 samsungs, here’s a laptop that’s designed to look like a MacBook Pro. Don’t deny it. Oh, you’re not? Good.

*By which I mean me. I can’t afford an assistant. Still waiting for that CrunchFund seed-funding.

(image from Gizmodo. Many more startling images available there.)