I wish that laptop manufacturers were not so blatant about copying Apple designs. Apple designs were not successful because they found some mysterious perfect design but because they were different enough and look reasonably good.
But there is still a lot of things that can be improved on that design.
I like Apple's design because they've managed to pack a really good keyboard and an excellent trackpad into something that is relatively light and thin. The problem with most of the knock offs is the okay keyboard, but terrible trackpads.
I don't know about yours, but my MacBook Pro has one of the worst keyboards I have ever seen in a laptop. Lenovo, they make good keyboards (or at least, used to).
If you mean you wish that Apple were not always the first to market with obvious good ideas such as higher pixel density, then you should welcome their competition getting in on the act.
I think he's referring to physical form. PC laptops were roughly boxy things in 2 colors (tan and black) for a long time. After Apple released the solid color iBooks (after the 'purse' versions) you started to see smaller and whiter laptops. After Apple moved to aluminum and started making their laptops very thin, suddenly all sorts of PCs were aluminum and thin.
Apple doesn't own 'thin laptop', but tons of the thin laptop market just happens to be aluminum with a black keyboard with space between the keys.
I'm in the Mac world and haven't really looked for PCs, but it seems like every laptop I see either has a striking resemblance to a Mac or is a 'pimped out' Alienware desktop replacement type machine with interesting lines and multi-color LED lighting and such.
That is in fact what I meant. Pixel even has the little dent for the user to put the finger in when opening the laptop. I feel like even if I wanted to buy a non-Apple laptop, the fact that a lot of designs are so similar to Apple makes me feel as if I was buying Adidos shoes which cost roughly the same as real Adidas shoes (and I'm far from being an Apple fan boy). And again, I feel like there is still a lot that could be improved on said design.
That little dent is actually what I hate most about my current MacBook Pro. It looks nice, especially when closed, but the radius on corners is way too small, so it's pretty uncomfortable when you poke yourself on it.
2nd worst is not having a USB port on the right side, but they've changed that in the 2+ years since mine was made.
