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To: rupert1 who wrote (62530)	6/8/1999 4:58:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Colour Me COMPAQ - A discussion from the Yahoo Club Thread (it refers to the blue COMPAQ's introduced last week in Asia. It also to refers to efforts by "she_x" to collect ideas from the Yahoo Club about colour and design to be passed on to executives at Houston): to: shex from: hlpinout 06/07/1999 08:13 pm EDT You continue to dazzle me with your knowledge. I remember the discussion here earlier (I think started by Soltrader) about colors. Is this the start? hio _________ tp: hlpinout from: she_xlr8s (44/F/TX) 06/07/1999 09:22 pm EDT thank you. i think this is more or less a test type project for asia only and only notebooks as far as i know. new consumer products for cycle 2 should be coming out any day now. the model we were discussing has been chosen and is not a one piece, they decided to go with a tower design. all comments from the thread on the board were forwarded and they were receptive to the color ideas but nothing has been decided yet on that part of the project. sounded like they were more interested in darker more jeweltones than the apple colors though. it will not be out until probably christmas. i told them i wanted the passionate purple limited edition peter max model and they laughed and muttered something about being lost in the 60's. thanks again for all your posts, she _____________ Burrrrrr!!! csi_satyr (40/M/Bradenton, FL) 06/08/1999 01:06 am EDT The tower design is typical of the flawed decision making process we have seen here over and over. So it will take them 6 months to add some dye to the plastic during the moulding process. Now there is rapid response. Points for an all-in-one (apple) design: 1. Useful when space is at a premium. a. where to place the astheticly ugly CPU. i. next to the TV, phone, dolls (girls room) ii. on the floor (gets in the way of vacuuming) iii. in the garbage 2. Great when it breaks (no more using the old monitor on a new PC or vise versa; sell em a whole new one) 3. More portable 4. The shape of things to come (computers used to take up entire rooms. now we have PCs that are much smaller and practical for home usage. i.e. smaller is better!!!!!) COME ON. Let's get with the program CPQ. Get RID of the BOX! Or will we wait for DELL to produce one so we can copy IT! Anyone ever think of trying to take some market share from apple? Needless to say I am VERY disappointed. This is another example of a good idea kicked around in committee by bureaucrats who can't see the forest for the trees. Don't tell me....market research included interviewing three nerds that needed paper weights in their room, or possibly parents who thought the exhausted CPU would eventually make a good boat anchor. <muttering __________________________ well, i declare, csi... soltrader (48/F/Toronto) 06/08/1999 01:33 am EDT must be hot in brandenton. nonetheless, points are valid. i agree about the tower getting in the way of cleaning. it is also vulnerable to toe stubbing and inadvertent kicks, causing system imbalance, etc. Too bad cpq can't come out with a palette of usual and unusual colors, the kind that make you do a double take on the product. Reminds me of the new VW beetle I saw the other day; it was a shade between lime and pea green, crazy redhead was driving (figures...no offence to redheads the world over). I won't soon forget the color. More importantly, I won't forget the product. Compaq could use some of this boldness.