Killer Park Job: ‘Asus Designers Have Really Great Ideas’

Dan Hughes on the industrial design of the Asus Nova P22:

To me, it initially looked like a pen holder. Bizarrely enough though, it turns that it is indeed a pen holder. Are you kidding me? What computer user has ever said, gee, the one thing this machine really needs is a pen holder hanging off the side of its case?

What an amazing computer: slower, bigger, and more expensive than a Mac Mini — but where do you put a pen in a Mac Mini?

★ Monday, 25 February 2008