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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Fri, 07 February 2020, 14:30:15
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MSI- Rose Pink Prestige
targeting female market?
i7-10710U (6-core, 15watt tdp)
Nvidia GTX 1650 (MaxQ)
4K screen (optional)
Comes with pink bag, pink mouse, pink dragon keychain < That's alotta pink >
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The only other competition is Razr's Blade Quartz Pink 15.
This looks to be more of a slate-pink, vs the warmer pink on the MSI
< a much more powerful machine w/ up to 2060 + 9750h cpu for pink version>
< kinda weird that the Max config isn't available for the Pink version, 2080(mq) or Quadro rtx 5000. >
The CPU is 9th gen 9750h (~65watt part), but way faster than 10th gen i7-10710U on the MSI (15-25 watt part)
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If I understand feminists correctly they will hate these. The lack of high end hardware is an insult as it suggests females can't know how to do complicated things on a computer or that their time is worth less, and the colour is a reminder that all designers are males and worse than that - males who think the only way to sell to the "stupid" half of society is to make a pink version.
Personally I think the above is crazy and it's good to have pink options that will appeal to some female buyers - who are more than welcome to pick the standard boring grey version if they so wish.
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/headscratch ..
pink is not kewl with feminists ?
I didn't know this. I assumed with all those breast cancer ribbons and pink church fish emblems, that pink is popular.
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idk what this has anything at all to do with feminism. because it's pink? my avatar is pink, am I automatically a feminist? do feminists even like girly things, I think it's the other way around.
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idk what this has anything at all to do with feminism. because it's pink? my avatar is pink, am I automatically a feminist? do feminists even like girly things, I think it's the other way around.
Well, feminism is broad, you have academics which narrow it to suit their particular agenda. Overtime, it's become a very general term, an inclination/ direction.
While I don't doubt there's an anti-pink feminist cabal in existence, surely they're fringe.
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I think the colours look good in the pictures, but their quartz keyboard is just bad. It is a nice change though that razer isn't just using pink as another breast cancer advert. But I doubt this will get many women into gaming, since most people I see with the quartz lineups are men.
edit- thought this was razer not msi lol
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MSI is ****ing trash, especially customer service. Avoid at all cost, **** those assbags.
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MSI is ****ing trash, especially customer service. Avoid at all cost, **** those assbags.
/Gasp , bad xperience ?, tell us on this anatomically correct laptop where MSI broke it.
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If I understand feminists correctly they will hate these. The lack of high end hardware is an insult as it suggests females can't know how to do complicated things on a computer or that their time is worth less, and the colour is a reminder that all designers are males and worse than that - males who think the only way to sell to the "stupid" half of society is to make a pink version.
Personally I think the above is crazy and it's good to have pink options that will appeal to some female buyers - who are more than welcome to pick the standard boring grey version if they so wish.
I can do complicated things on my computer. I'm known as "the person who can fix things" around here
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Laptop seems more than fine when it comes to specifications. I don't see what the big deal is with the color, who cares. Sure, there are women or even men out there who would prefer a pink setup. It's fine that there is this option too, obviously.
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Pink != Feminism.
The practice of slapping a powder pink color on a product and marketing it "for women", usually at a higher cost than the exact same product in ite regular color is not a new thing, and not one that women are especially fond of, as it's both presumptuous and also sexist, as it puts a monetary premium on being a woman.
See: Bic Pens "For Her" -- read the comments. they're golden.
https://www.amazon.com/BIC-Fashion-Retractable-Assorted-Fashion-FHAP21-ASST/dp/B005YGLA5Y
I'm a lady, and not really sure about the gender alignments of most mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but I'm guessing it's mostly dudes around here. I got interested in tech fairly late in my life (30s) but I can tell you wasn't because my 20s were concerned with bunnies and unicorns and glitter but instead because when I was growing up in a non-large city as a teen girl in the 90s/2000s, I just wasn't exposed to technology very much, and when I tried to get into it, I was often made to feel tokenized or unwelcome. Either relentlessly hit on or treated like an unredeemable half-wit as the only girl in metal shop class, for example. Nobody ever told me that I could program a computer until I was in my late 20s, though when I started I excelled at it.
The fact that this pink **** is pushed upon women as though a) we are helplessly dazzled by anything pink and shiny or b) are incapable of being interested in or desiring anything un-pink says a lot more about men than it does about women.
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I was often made to feel tokenized or unwelcome.
Well, to be fair, the generalized Geek-dude, was never given the opportunity to socialize with the females.
So.. while there is no disagreement that many are doing it poorly, it's due to inexperience more than anything else, they're at core lvl, no more or less tolerant or stereotyping than the next male.
IF ANYTHING, the kewl gud'looking male types with ample opportunities for interaction learn to be manipulative, suave', and sly.
You almost never hear computer-dude breaking someone's heart, only someone whose broken computer-dude's heart.
(https://i.imgur.com/uqAeXBu.gif)
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but why?
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*feminine*. Not feminist.
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Well, to be fair, the generalized Geek-dude, was never given the opportunity to socialize with the females.
So.. while there is no disagreement that many are doing it poorly, it's due to inexperience more than anything else, they're at core lvl, no more or less tolerant or stereotyping than the next male.
if I am dismissive or condescending to geek-dudes, it's not my fault -- i was just never given the opportunity to socialize with them. :))