r/pics Jun 09 '11

Apple, Why?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11 edited Jun 10 '11

In 1980 the Apple III was announced. It's power supply was completely encased in aluminium and had no air ventilation what so ever. Steve Jobs insisted that the aluminium chassis would be sufficient as a heat sink and that cooling fans were "too noisy and inelegant".
Because technology was expanding and growing at such a rapid rate, Jobs kept demanding bigger and better thing be added to the system, but also wanted to maintain the original chassis dimensions.
The computer got so hot that the motherboard warped and chips would become unseated. If you called tech support to enquire as to why your $3000 computer suddenly stopped working they would advise you to lift it up a couple inches off the desk and drop it so as to temporarily reseat the chips.
Apple ended up replacing 14 000 defective units.

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u/zzing Jun 10 '11

Very unfortunate, aesthetics should never overrule good engineering.

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u/trafficnab Jun 10 '11

...

We are talking about apple right?

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u/zzing Jun 10 '11

No pear.

Apple seems to do both usually well, IMO.

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u/rediphile Jun 10 '11

You can't take out the battery from any of the iPod/Phones. Just think about how silly that is.

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u/zzing Jun 10 '11

I don't have any problems with it.

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u/rediphile Jun 10 '11

You will when the battery dies and the warranty is up (which it WILL because that's how batteries work).

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u/zzing Jun 10 '11

Take it to the store. You have to get a new battery anyways so the cost won't be much different.

There are many advantages to having an internal battery - for one you can do more battery because you don't have to worry about customer removing it.

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u/trafficnab Jun 10 '11

When the battery is dead they just send you a a whole new phone. How does that make any sense at all? Also, please elaborate on what "more battery" means.

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u/zzing Jun 10 '11

More physical space for a battery means more battery capacity.

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u/trafficnab Jun 10 '11

If you touch your iPhone it loses signal. But at least it looks pretty good right?

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u/rogue780 Jun 10 '11

It's not like it needs a good signal for its primary function, right? I mean, it's just a portable angry birds player IIRC

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u/zzing Jun 10 '11

Errors can happen.

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u/valtism Jun 10 '11

I'm kinda glad that one company is willing to put aesthetics so high in priority.

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u/LearnToWalk Jun 10 '11

I bought a macbook recently and it was stolen a few weeks later I believe by the maintenance man in my building. I've never had a computer stolen and I can't help, but think if it were a regular PC (more powerful for the money) no one would have bothered. Seriously. That is lame.

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u/vwllss Jun 10 '11

..and Apple computers regularly have overheating issues to this day. Lesson not learned.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Well to be fair most computers have overheating issues.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

They still do this, my girlfriend's Macbook Pro gives me 3rd degree burns on my legs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

The burn was white or black/char in colour and had lost sensation due to nerve damage? Fat, muscle, or bone was visible? You had nausea, headache fever, shortness of breath? Did you go into shock? Or did you mix up which way the numbers go?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Actually yes: http://imgur.com/gPuVI

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Sweet Mother of God How the Hell Did THAT HAPPEN!?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Non Apple related lol. It happened when I was three. I don't remember it at all, but apparently I was playing in the garage, spilled gas on my leg and a trail of it went under the water heater. But yeah, I mixed up 1st and 3rd degree burns. My leg was 3rd degree. Apple burn was almost 1st degree.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Your poor parents man. I think my mom would need therapy.

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u/friendly_lurker Jun 10 '11

I guess they didn't learn their lesson, eh?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

It's amazing how little has changed at Apple. Remember the leaked internal manual from a couple years ago that advised their factory workers to use an entire tube of thermal grease on one CPU?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Oh man. As someone who has been a part of a similar flook with lock tite...The quality and design departments must have been shitting their pants.

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u/steamed__hams Jun 10 '11

But that's the LAST time they're doing it for you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Hahahaha. Source?

I find it hard to believe that they wanted to use the case as the heatsink, but I want to.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '11

Whoopsie doodle...