I bought a dead Mac Iisi at the flea market today because I wanted the case for a media PC project I'm gonna build. After gutting it this evening I just have to say that is perhaps the most elegant job of hardware engineering I've ever seen. Almost everything was custom-designed to snap together--there were no screws holding the motherboard or the drives, they just snapped into place.
And the fan was amazing, another marvel of snap-in design. Must have made for great airflow on the motherboard since there were no cables or wires in the way. Even the fan snapped directly onto the motherboard instead of using a cable. I don't think anybody, not even Apple, makes computers this elegant anymore. Not when you want to be able to switch suppliers on a dime if you get a cheaper bid, you can't go with stuff like the custom fan that was in this Iisi. It's a nice reminder though of what can be done if a company wants to spend the time and money. --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
