About one year ago, I sold my iBook G4 in order to buy the then upcoming MacBook. Due to an unexpected change of plans (I moved to a new house), that MacBook never reached my desk; I still really missed having a Mac around. Now, almost a year later, I am again back on Mac. So, what did I buy? A sleek black MacBook? An all-powerful Intel PowerMac quad-core? No. David, OSNews' owner, sent me his G4 Cube.
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>> hell, i cant understand how something like this
>> wasn't spotted in R&D. creating a computer out of a
>> material that can hold a charge, and giving it the
>> switch that they did is just weird.
Remember, this is the company that uses the CSA (Canadian Standards Association) because it's the most lax of the OSHA listed labs (and constantly being threatened with being removed from the OSHA testing list)
Why? Because not one single piece of Apple hardware (including the iPods) would actual pass testing with Underwriter Laboratories.
Of course, if more hardware was UL listed, or at least tested to their standards, we'd have less laptop batteries exploding, less magnetic power connectors catching fire, and less rinky switches that break after a mere three weeks of use... a problem NOT unique to the Apple. You get some JUST as goofy if not worse on low end PC's like eMachines, or cost cutting ******* like Dell.
Edited 2007-03-30 04:27
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2005-10-02
...why did you discharge the casing? That's the coolest power-on/off feature, I've ever seen
Just tapping the desk, and it turned on.. Kool