So.. the computer is now personal again ?

The computer is personal again, and it may sound very familiar. But if you think about it, all in this age is about being personal and unique. You are a image and you market yourself. One way is through clothing and gadgets, other through social media.

People will think that Apple products as beautiful and unique, or I’m wrong. Well that is the “feeling” I get from people that buy apple products. “I’m cool, hip, not like you with your ugly PC” an exaggeration but in some sense it may be true. But apple notebooks and computers are not personal; they say I’m one of a small pack that is easy to spot. I like easy and not complicated and don’t mine paying a premium for it.  The same feeling I get with ipod, iphone and all their other white, silver or black products. Are they personal? Personal Computers may have the personal name on it but are not personal. In the other hand blogs are personal. Where I’m going  with all this nonsense you may think (and hope you are still reading and willing to read). Hear is the deal:

So, I just created this blog and I’m searching for a theme in the wordpress presentation section and stumbled with this theme. And it was like hitting the first piece of a domino line, one memory after another where going down.

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 Well, there like just four pieces knocked, but you get the pictured.

 So I saw the theme and a say to myself, “this looks familiar”.

And I remember a recent news post I saw in notebookreview.com where HP announced a new version of a laptop called the Artist Edition. They are not the same design or maybe colors, but I just remembered it.

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I don’t know for you, but for me this is something way better than an apple laptop, when dealing with art, not functionality, ART. Apple computers (desktop and laptops) may be simple, clean and nice but they don’t let you express you self. They don’t provide nothing like hp in terms of artistic expression. Yes I can’t create my own designs in HP site, but that is not far from now.

Remember I said it sounded familiar, here is why:

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And from where did HP have all this sudden artistic competence? Remember the Voodoo PC acquisition (news post here). HP new all the way what it was doing and the competence they got from this. Yes Vista sucks and that may be a killer in some sense, but it will be hard to agree if you don’t think that the Artist Edition is a step toward letting a machine that will let you self express.

It’s a marketing campaign, but yes thanks to HP (and Voodoo), the computers are personal again.