No more details are known. Just that some cables catched fire. Maybe they examined one of the returned ones and found out that they were not manufactured to spec or maybe the contractor reduced safety margins to a point where they become potentially dangerous. I don't think any company wants to be responsible in case someone dies.
Better to collect all the cables before more bad publicity gets generated.
Plus (other comment) most just throw away a cable if it smells funny so actualy numbers are sort of a gray area.
I like small boxes. I built myself a cube sized (Cooltek Coolcube Mini) PC with an (desktop) AMD APU on an Mini-ITX board. There is room for a PCIe graphics card, but the integrated one suffices for the moment. The difference? It is upgradable. Granted, sort of until the CPU socket changes.
But how long will all these "mini gaming rigs" last? Probably a year then they end up in the closet. Sure, it works nicely for the manufacturers. You're supposed to replace them every other year. And this in times where even gaming PCs seem to last forever. Sandy bridge intels with a new graphics card and you're good to go for almost everything.
Right and this effect indeed noticable on my iBook. But the newer models with Radeon 7500 mobility have 32 MB video RAM which would be enough for Quartz Extreme on both displays.
But it looks like they want people to buy Powerbooks instead.;)
Many announcements in the timeline tell stories from different companies "quarterly loss", "lays off 20 people", "file for bankruptcy". Many creative company's have gone this way this year and it looks like they didn't really understand the market they were trying to get into.
Sometimes it reminds me of a rather old IBM ad on TV. Two guys talking, one reads a paper "We have to get on the internet" "Why?" "That's not in the text."
Like founding a company with a "let's do something cool in Linux" philosphy but without any clue or concept. They're trying to queeze Linux into their marketing scheme and then wonder why it doesn't work.
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No more details are known. Just that some cables catched fire. Maybe they examined one of the returned ones and found out that they were not manufactured to spec or maybe the contractor reduced safety margins to a point where they become potentially dangerous. I don't think any company wants to be responsible in case someone dies.
Better to collect all the cables before more bad publicity gets generated.
Plus (other comment) most just throw away a cable if it smells funny so actualy numbers are sort of a gray area.
I like small boxes. I built myself a cube sized (Cooltek Coolcube Mini) PC with an (desktop) AMD APU on an Mini-ITX board. There is room for a PCIe graphics card, but the integrated one suffices for the moment. The difference? It is upgradable. Granted, sort of until the CPU socket changes.
But how long will all these "mini gaming rigs" last? Probably a year then they end up in the closet. Sure, it works nicely for the manufacturers. You're supposed to replace them every other year. And this in times where even gaming PCs seem to last forever. Sandy bridge intels with a new graphics card and you're good to go for almost everything.
Come on, at least post a link. ;)
Have a look at this real time RT demo (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9461) from 10 years later. Breakpoint'03. :)
> Photo server is still up at http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/thumbnails.php? album=6
Yeah, we took care of that.
Right and this effect indeed noticable on my iBook. But the newer models with Radeon 7500 mobility have 32 MB video RAM which would be enough for Quartz Extreme on both displays.
;)
But it looks like they want people to buy Powerbooks instead.
Many announcements in the timeline tell stories from different companies "quarterly loss", "lays off 20 people", "file for bankruptcy". Many creative company's have gone this way this year and it looks like they didn't really understand the market they were trying to get into.
Sometimes it reminds me of a rather old IBM ad on TV. Two guys talking, one reads a paper "We have to get on the internet" "Why?" "That's not in the text."
Like founding a company with a "let's do something cool in Linux" philosphy but without any clue or concept. They're trying to queeze Linux into their marketing scheme and then wonder why it doesn't work.