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Wooden Computer Accessories
polyp2000 writes "It's always interesting to read about case-mods, but this company has a novel twist, for nature loving geeks. Maybe even the perfect accessory for a wooden case mod. Swedx do a nice line in wooden monitors, keyboards, and some sweet looking wooden mice in a selection of different woods."
That's an Apple ][, not a Mac, brainiac
Watts is not a measurement of heat, even if your drawing 100W of power, that doesn't guarantee that it'll be hot
Your computer would never get hot enough to catch wood on fire. You would be able to cook an egg on the metal case long before wood smolders. Even a capacitor popping in the power supply is no big deal. My only conern is RFI, but maybe they put a layer of conductive paint on the inside.
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All jokes aside, it would work, it might even work well, up to a certian speed...
then it would probably explode, sending toothpick like shrapnel in all directions..
Heck, the spokes on Model A's and T's were wooden.
I'm not sure what wood options you get with these, but some woods aren't much more renewable than mining.
Attempts at replanting logged / burnt tropical rainforests haven't been all that successful, because the ecosystems tend to be so funky and tightly woven.
At least metal is scrappable, although it's been @$%!#%$ hard to find a scrapyard that will take the random chunks of various metals I have lying around since I can't produce anything in any real quantity.
No, no, at the rate at which people use up any resource nowadays, including "renewable" ones, I think we're going to need something that renews a lot faster than trees but can be used for many jobs wood currently serves to make treas really count as renewable. Rate of production has to match rate of consumption; otherwise even petroleum counts as a renewable resource.
15" TFT 458 Euros
17" TFT 604 Euros
19" TFT 1090 Euros
Which is not all that bad considering how nice they look - here's a german shop selling them for those that are finding the site slashdotted.
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William Gibson called custom computers sandbenders in his 1996 novel Idoru - so that makes it 7 years behind the time ;)
There is nothing about teh chassis itself. This is just monitors (LCD's), keyboards and mice.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
No, it was the Apple I, not an Apple ][, you brainiac.
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Then some bright boy came up with the idea of white boxes. Then the natural corollary, the black box. Then Apple came out with the iMac and suddenly we had six new colors.
Actually, Sun and SGI were making purple machines long before Apple switched from beige.
The Apple 1 was a circuit board. No case, and you had to come up with your own power transformer to plug into the rectifier/regulator built onto the main board. And you had to wire in your own keyboard, a parallel-strobe ASCII keyboard. Then you hooked in your video monitor.
It all sat on the table, a bare circuit board, unless you got creative, which some people did with wood.
There was no 'official' Apple 1 case. The reason they didn't ship a power transformer with the circuit board was because of weight. In that era it was expected that anybody serious about it would know where to buy their own power transformer, or have one on hand.
It wasn't at all the same company that Apple is now.
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Not by 9am GMT it hadn't.
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not as if other people have been around for years doing the same thing, is it?
The parent post should be modded insightful, not funny - the probably best known wooden display/mirror has just 830 pixels.
The lumber companies know that more land isn't being created, and if they cut down all the trees, well, um, they're going out of business. Most lumber companies aren't stupid enough to do that to themselves.
Perhaps what you are seeing are the farms. Fly over any farmland, and you'll see exactly what you're talking about.
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