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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: If you can't stand the heat ...
Message-ID: <59725@sun.uucp>
Date: 13 Jul 88 19:18:18 GMT
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In article <6509@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> In article <578@helios.toronto.edu> dooley@helios.physics.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley) writes:
> > [ Story about how Macs cough in hot weather. ]
> >Maybe that everything-in-one-box design isn't such a great idea after all....
> >
> 	It has nothing to do with the fact that Macs have everything crammed
> into that little toaster.  It has to do with the fact that, with the recent
> exception of the Mac-too, every computer Apple has designed has a fundemental
> design flaw.
> 
> 	The fan is missing.
> 
The MacSE also has a fan.  (We'll ignore the fact that the fan chosen
was not optimal...)

The lack of a fan didn't hurt the Apple // series, and they sure are
quiet.

Btw, the first thing to go has historically been an under-spec'd fly-
back transformer on the analog board in the Mac.  An aftermarket fan
like the System Saver Mac or Fanny Mac fixes the trouble.

(All this because Steve Jobs didn't like the noise of fans.  Mechanical
ones, anyway.)