Friday, March 06, 2009

Pink Laptops 101

By Michael Tan

Pink laptops are gaining popularity, especially among women. Different from the old days when laptop computers come only in dull black or gray, most laptop computers nowadays comes with fun, vibrant, and brilliant colors.. and among all colors, pink is one of the most popular. Because of this, laptop manufacturing companies such as Toshiba, Sony, and Dell, to name a few, always include pink as one of the color options for their laptop. Pink laptop has proven to add attraction and the extra x-factor that help selling their laptops.

Will choosing a pink laptop force you to give up on performance? Definitely not. Laptop manufacturing companies have capitalized on the sentimental value that women attach to pink color, but they are also well aware that their customers are looking for top performance besides good look. So it's really easy to find a fabulous pink laptop with great features and high performance these days. So it's not surprising to see pink laptops gaining popularity among women. To them, pink laptops are not just a useful gadget, but also a fashion statement.

Dell is one of the laptop brand that always provide multiple striking color options for their product, and pink is always one of them. Also you can always count on them to provide great features and descent performance laptops. Dell's popular pink laptops consist of the XPS line, Studio line, Inspiron line, and the newly launched E-class Latitude. Each of these product lines often get great review rating from the pros. Besides good looks and great performance, another good thing about Dell that's worth mentioning, is that Dell will donate $5 to the breast cancer organization for every 'Promise Pink' laptop that people buy from them. So when you purchase a pink laptop from Dell, you are doing a good deed at the same time.

Besides Dell, Sony VAIO would be another brand that often comes in various shades of pink. The models with pink color options include CR, NR, SR, and TZ series.. each of which comes in different version of pink. For instance: Cosmopolitan Pink for the CR series, Textured Cherry Blossom Pink for the NR series, and Sunset pink for the SR series. The Sony VAIO laptop tend to be more expensive compare to other brands, but they are also more stylish, and comes with great performance and features. One great benefit that you can get from the Sony VAIO laptop, is that you will be able to personalize it with engraving, free of charge, if you purchase the laptop from Sony's official website.

Some companies like to produce limited edition of pink laptops on special occasions. For example, MSI, a Taiwan laptop manufacturer, has recently released a Valentine Edition of Wind U100 mini laptop (aka netbook). It's really cool to own one of these special edition pink laptops as they exist only for a limited number of units, and so you can proudly showing it off to your friends. But since they are limited edition, it will not be easy to get them. You need to pay extra attention during the special occasions, typically on February (Valentine's Day) and October (Breast Cancer Awareness month), and act fast to them when seeing one that you like.

A new laptop categories, quickly gaining popularity last year, is the netbook. It's a low-cost, small-sized, light weight, and lean function mini laptop that is optimized for Internet access and core computing functions. Due to it's light-weight and compact size, women tend to favor a netbook over a full-size laptop if their main usage for the machine are mostly light-weight processing. The good thing about netbook is, most of them are available in pink. Acer Aspire One, Asus Eee PC, Dell Inspiron Mini, just to name a few, all comes with great performance and shiny pink color. So if web surfing, word processing, and other core computing functions are all you need, a pink netbook would be perfect for you.

Although pink laptops are so popular now, there are still some laptop brands that are not available in pink. But no worries, there are companies that will customize the color for you. Colorware, Inc. for example offers customized color on laptops and a variety of other devices. You can buy your laptop directly from them or send in one you already own for customization. Alternatively, another company called Gen-X-PC will match any PMS (Pantone) or Hex color and you get a choice of 4 different finishes " solid, metallic, pearl or color shift. For a less expensive way, you could just apply pink laptop skin on your machine. Many laptop skins with really cool design and low price can easily change the look of laptop to be more attractive.

Pink laptops have caused quite a sensation. It consistently outsell their counterparts and is predicted to keep gaining popularity. We believe that more choices of pink color laptops are coming our way this year!

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