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    Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die

    Fanboy Fever Explained Through Science
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    Image of snoop-blog snoop-blog
    12/13/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    So I guess I'm the only one who likes the color of paint silver? I mean the second most liked paint job on a car in 2008 was silver according to jalopnik.


    Anyway, I didn't buy a silver psp because I thought it looked like metal, only an idiot would think that it looked like an actual metal and not a silver paint. I personally like the color and it has a metallic flec in it that looks really cool.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    I take it you haven't seen my shoes Brian?



    Pretty sweet huh?

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    12/12/08

    @admoseremic: P.S. don't ban me for this please.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/12/08

    @admoseremic: No. You need to get banned for wearing those shoes in public. They're horrible.


    Maybe they'll let you comment again some other time but you need to be banned from MeatSpace for wearing those shoes.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    at least all the silver painted plastic in the ole sansa in on the inside - outside it's black plastic and amorphous metallic glass
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    No mention of the BlackBerry Curve Titanium. What gives?
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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    Canon only does their cheapo point-n-shoots in silver painted plastic. The Elphs are mostly metal.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/12/08

    @dingus: Indeed. I love my SD1000 and it's durable shell.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    One step below silver painted gadgets are Pink Gadgets.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    Wow, I just thought about all the Gadgets I have and realized that I have been subconsciously not choosing the crappy faux metal gizmos.


    my zen is very zen in its sexy black case.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    How about silver-painted MDF speakers? Man, I need a new set of speakers.
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    Image of puntai puntai
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    IDK, they looks pretty good to me. Would you rather have them beige?
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    12/12/08

    @puntai: The problem is not the silver color, but the cheap veneer meant to make it look like a more expensive material. Once chipped, cracked, or scraped, the illusion is broken, and the material looks cheaper than if the veneer had not been applied in the first place.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    You have made Super Nintendo sad... :*-(


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    12/12/08

    @jdbaile3: Ohhh super nintendo...*hug*
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    12/12/08

    @jdbaile3: When I was 14, I sold my SNES for a 14.4 USRobotics. I didn't know what I was thinking, but a part of me died that day.
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    12/12/08

    @ripfire: I would be less of a person if I wasn't able to occasionally play Super Mario World after carefully inserting the cartridge a few times, finally being able to load the game.
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    12/12/08

    @jdbaile3: *sigh* I can almost hear the music echoing in my head.


    "deet-deet-deet doot deet-deet-deet doot deeeeeee doot!"

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    " And it needs to stop as surely as wooden panels on station wagons needed to stop 30 years ago"


    No, woodie wagons are still cool. Plastic molding and shelf paper with a wood grain pattern printed on it to simulate wood needs to stop.

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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/12/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: Let's be clear: True Woodys, GM and Ford vehicles from the 30s thru the 40s, are still very cool. The passenger compartment and roof is made from real wood, with a weatherized canvas fabric stretched over the roof lattice for a top.


    In the 1950s, manufacturers started tacking wood onto the sides of steel clad automobiles. That was the beginning of the end. The true insult happened in the 1070s, when the material slapped on the side of Ford station wagons was basically Formica with a wood-grained appearance.

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    Image of pizzlepaps pizzlepaps
    12/12/08

    @EBone: gdamn, back in the 1070's I was struggling to pimp my ox drawn carriage with some horses.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/12/08

    @pizzlepaps: Damn the missing edit button! To make up for it, here's a link to a picture of a Ford Pinto Wagon Woody:


    [jalopnik.com]

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    Image of JRoscoe JRoscoe
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    Bring back the black.
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    Image of CraziestGadgets.com CraziestGadgets.com
    12/12/08

    @JRoscoe:

    the black chips off just like the silver does. i'd like to see more cobalt blue to be honest.
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    Image of citizen024 citizen024
    12/12/08

    @CraziestGadgets.com: the black on my thinkpad has not chipped off yet...

    Have you even considered that plastics in many cases dont even need to be painted.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/12/08

    @citizen024: Unlike the Macbook, which IS painted, but happily just reveals more black, as it's glossy black plastic underneath.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    But gold-painted plastic gadgets are still cool right?
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    12/12/08

    @BloggyMcBlogBlog: Sure, if you're a hooker.
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    Image of GizMadone GizMadone
    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    There is one thing worse than silver-painted gadgets. Faux-carbon fiber. The kind with the "weave" printed onto the plastic.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    12/12/08

    @GizMadone: YES! Props for bringing this up. I actually saw the phrase "carbon-fiber-like" in a press release the other day—pretty sure it caused me to delete the email instantly.
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    12/12/08

    @GizMadone: I have an HP laptop like that although thankfully they did not try to pass it off as carbon fiber. Instead it's supposed to be a Zen pattern...
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
    I believe the day silver painted gadgets will no longer be made is the same day that companies collectively abandon the idea of planned obsolescence. As in never.


    Boy do I agree with this overall sentiment.

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    12/12/08

    @Th Lb: Yh. M, t. Bt srsly, thgh...ths s prtty lm xcs f tpc fr n dtrl rnt, dn't y thnk? vn n slw nws dy 'm sr y cld cm p wth t lst hlf dzn wrthr sss.
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    12/12/08

    @Pixelologist: I don't think so. Sometimes, if something's bugging the crap out of you, it's all you can think about at that moment. And this topic is very appropriate for a gadget blog, seeing as how so many gadgets have (or used to) this crappy surface treatment. Looks nice in the store, and then after two days in your pocket/briefcase/man-purse it looks like total shit.
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