Don't think outside the box, BE outside the box
I was browsing emag today, and as usual, I went to see what is new in the laptop department. And I found the new Dell 1525, as colorful as ever. I have a Dell myself, an Inspiron 1520 in pink, but this new model is a step further :)
And I started thinking: why does everybody own a gray or black (or dark blue maybe) laptop? Do they want to "fit in"? Fit in where? Underground? Don't get me wrong, I'm not Flower Power :) but I really do ask myself the never ending "why??!?!?" when it comes to this. I heard the "classy" card in relation to the "black laptop" trend. Is it really classier? Do you receive more respect when you, say, go on a conference stage and present ASP .NET (sorry, my thing) in front of an audience from a black laptop? Or are you just another one of many, just a shadow in the crowd?...
Nowadays there are many smart people around, talented people, successful people. The days when you asked "how many of you developed a workflow" in a gathering and one or two people at most raised their hands are gone. Today information is something that everybody has. Everybody has a rocket model at home. So why fit in? Shouldn't we stand out?
You will say that standing out should be related to what you say not how you look. Yeah, right. iPhone is aaaaaaall about the software, that's why you would replace your PDA with it in a minute. Last conference you went to - which presenter do you remember? The smart one? Or the smart one that said it all in the right tone and moved like he was delivering the information with his body language and you don't even know what background color the PowerPoint slides were on? It's all about presentation, my friends.
So don't you dare start rolling your eyes when someone comes into the room and takes out of his/her bag a green tattooed laptop - as he/she is the bold one in the room. You are only blending in. With your gray laptop. Aren't they all...
And I started thinking: why does everybody own a gray or black (or dark blue maybe) laptop? Do they want to "fit in"? Fit in where? Underground? Don't get me wrong, I'm not Flower Power :) but I really do ask myself the never ending "why??!?!?" when it comes to this. I heard the "classy" card in relation to the "black laptop" trend. Is it really classier? Do you receive more respect when you, say, go on a conference stage and present ASP .NET (sorry, my thing) in front of an audience from a black laptop? Or are you just another one of many, just a shadow in the crowd?...
Nowadays there are many smart people around, talented people, successful people. The days when you asked "how many of you developed a workflow" in a gathering and one or two people at most raised their hands are gone. Today information is something that everybody has. Everybody has a rocket model at home. So why fit in? Shouldn't we stand out?
You will say that standing out should be related to what you say not how you look. Yeah, right. iPhone is aaaaaaall about the software, that's why you would replace your PDA with it in a minute. Last conference you went to - which presenter do you remember? The smart one? Or the smart one that said it all in the right tone and moved like he was delivering the information with his body language and you don't even know what background color the PowerPoint slides were on? It's all about presentation, my friends.
So don't you dare start rolling your eyes when someone comes into the room and takes out of his/her bag a green tattooed laptop - as he/she is the bold one in the room. You are only blending in. With your gray laptop. Aren't they all...
