oskda
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If it’s going to be painted and there won’t be an option for an unpainted version...
Microsoft, a massive consumer products company, painted the Surface Pro 6 series in black and the thing literally flakes off if you run a nail over it. I don’t care how many promises are made about the paint matching the plastic, or being durabke....
It’s a niche enthusiast device. Why does everyone want this thing to look like Nintendo made it. That’s the whole point.
1st/ I don't know why you say if there is paint version tgen it can't be a no painted version. I think both versions could exist. And I think unpainted should be an OPTIONAL CASE, not standard, because bad reviews damage sales and market survival.
For us, after years bad pkastic aspect isn't an isuue, but it can be for sales and new people watching Pyra for 1st time. If they see a device which looks cheap, theu will thinl inside it is worse.
2nd/ Do you know magnesium alloy in notebooks. It is hi-tech, incredible good, light, resistant, but ugly: you can't leave it raw, but you need to cover it on external sides. Best notebooks have used it and a layer/paint over it soit feels and looks good. Some layers resist wear nicely other doesn't. It depends on layer/paint.
Thinkpad nitebboks have used that layers for decades. In some midels it was less durable in others it was very durable and I loved them. I have not found better noteboks.
I want to show you can do ir good or not with paint/layer/cover. Microsoft in notebooks is simply unexperienced.
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Hmm... these calculators have very very thick plastic cases. I wonder if the textured plastic hides flaws or if the thick plastic prevents them. (Or minimises them, I should say, because both my 48SX and my 48GX have (barely noticable) flaws in the plastic. And in your lower photo isn't there a semicircular flaw spanning the middle of the back?)
If you see HP 48 plastic by inner side, where it isn't textured, you will see flaws, I think external texture hides them, and the best is that it makes plastic no slippery and less prone to scratches.
You can see intersal side in battery cover and in card slots in SX and GX models.
PD: I love original brown color in HP 48SX.