Wooden Computer Accessories 467
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."
Re:Yawn. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Still... (Score:2, Informative)
oh please (Score:4, Informative)
Re:oh please (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Just like the wooden car with wooden wheels (Score:2, Informative)
then it would probably explode, sending toothpick like shrapnel in all directions..
Heck, the spokes on Model A's and T's were wooden.
Re:You love nature so much that you (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:oh please (Score:4, Informative)
Prices! (Score:4, Informative)
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 [erl5.de] a german shop selling them for those that are finding the site slashdotted.
Jedidiah
Re:About 6 years behind the time. (Score:2, Informative)
RTFM, People (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yawn. (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Fashion & the Beige Box (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, Sun and SGI were making purple machines long before Apple switched from beige.
Re:Yawn. (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:No /.ing! (Score:3, Informative)
Not by 9am GMT it hadn't.
Tiggsnice to see people up to date (Score:1, Informative)
Re:They just don't work very well (Score:2, Informative)
Re:You love nature so much that you (Score:3, Informative)
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.