[oemera]

Your point is ridiculous! I'm so angry at the moment... How can people say something like this... I don't get it. Non-tech-guys don't see such little differences. Especially if they are bit older. They just don't care and often people wouldn't even see the HP logo on the bezel either. They don't care. It looks like an iMac, which saw in a TV ad and want to buy one. Plus if the best buy guy says it is the same thing they will believe your words cause they don't know better.

It's not even about design but also about marketing budget which Apple pays for it's products. With copying the design, you even get the marketing for free...

I hate to say this but at the moment the whole PC / Tablet industry is copying Apple. And this nothing good at all. Not for Apple and not for everyone else!

[buro9]

I'm absolutely baffled by the emotional reaction of anger over this.

Is this really something to be angry about?

I mean, I feel anger at times. Anger at libraries being shut, poverty in the local estates, jobs being cut, growing up without a father present, that we go to war, that cycling in London is more dangerous than it need be.

But I don't get angry when <company A> does anything to <company B> for any values of A and B.

[oemera]

I didn't get angry because someone copied Apple but that someone would say that old people like my would need new glasses if they couldn't differentiate both machines. This arrogant and offensive at the same time. What makes you say something like that? Not everyone knows everything about technology. My Dad is 67 and I know he couldn't distinguish those machines but that is ok. He doesn't need to.

HN is not Digg or Youtube comments.

[nuclear_eclipse]

> Non-tech-guys don't see such little differences. Especially if they are bit older.

Just because my mother can't tell any of the modern cars apart doesn't mean they don't look different in some way. She's just not educated on the differences, and doesn't know what to look for. That doesn't mean that Hyundai and Kia should be sued for designing their cars to incorporate styles from the most popular luxury cars on the market; in the end they're still selling you something that isn't nearly as high quality as the competitors they're imitating, and nobody walks into a Hyundai or Kia dealer thinking they're getting a German piece of engineering.

[powertower]

His point is completely sane. Your point is completely delusional. Having a rectangular monitor on a stand is not Apple's "trade dress", "IP", or anything else. It is a standard design choice that has been around for ages.

HP didn't copy anything here worth mentioning.

[cheald]

It's worth noting that older non-tech-guys haven't been able to tell the difference between Macs and PCs forever, even when they have wildly differing designs, to the point that it's a tech support cliche now.