The new line of Google Chromebooks is out and they look, well, familiar.
The design of the new Chromebooks match very closely with Apple’s MacBooks, which have had the same unibody design since 2008.
This is nothing new for the Chromebook line.
The Samsung Chromebook, first generation, looked like a knockoff MacBook Air, and apparently had the build quality to match, with frequent reports of screens separating from their casing.
The second-generation Chromebooks continue the tradition, with 2 out of 3 that look shamelessly Apple-inspired.
As you can see, the black beveled screen of the MacBook Pro was lifted by the HP Chromebook, as well as the centered silver text and rounded-edge bottom.
The Chromebook on the left apes the MacBook air’s bottom case shape, with the same vertical and rounded bevel and profile.
There’s more than one way to design a sleek, affordable laptop.
But Samsung and HP (who Google partners with to manufacture Chromebooks, as well as Acer and others) have designed Apple lookalikes to run Chrome OS, showing that the industry just can’t get over that classic Apple design.
