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nescience:
--- Quote from: jhocking ---I meant to post a link to information about the failed mac design without fans, but I forgot. At one point Steve-o decided he didn't like fans and told his engineers to come up with a design that didn't have any fans in it. The resulting computer often went nuclear while people were using it.
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Ah yes, you're (partially) talking of the CUBE...
Anyone remember this bomb?
edscoble:
--- Quote from: nescience ---
--- Quote from: jhocking ---I meant to post a link to information about the failed mac design without fans, but I forgot. At one point Steve-o decided he didn't like fans and told his engineers to come up with a design that didn't have any fans in it. The resulting computer often went nuclear while people were using it.
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Ah yes, you're (partially) talking of the CUBE...
Anyone remember this bomb?
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yes, I do, it's an innovated design to used an alternated method of using gravity to keep the Cube cool, the bonus is that it run very quite, unfortunately the reason it failed because it's too expensive, because of the technology back then (eighty quid for 20GB? are you mad??) and because it's small, it may needed laptop hard drive for one, it's a victim of being too ahead of time.
nihilist:
It failed because of hardware problems and bad manufacturing, not because of price. True Apple die-hards shell out obscene amounts of money because Steve says they should and since he's oh-so-cool, they do. :)
edscoble:
--- Quote from: nihilist ---It failed because of hardware problems and bad manufacturing, not because of price. True Apple die-hards shell out obscene amounts of money because Steve says they should and since he's oh-so-cool, they do. :)
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actually there's no hardware problem, it was just too expensive for the specification, while the PowerMac is cheaper with more specs.
nihilist:
Stop quoting the person above you. It's just not cool.
There were hardware problems with it: overheating, things cracking, and it giving off a horrible smell.
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