I personally prefer the Power Macintosh 6100 form factor, but even I can appreciate the goofy personality of Apple’s engineers to tease Carl Sagan with a first-generation PowerPC Macintosh. “Cold Fusion” on the 8100 was probably the coolest name of the series, while the poor 6100 got stuck with “piltdown man.”
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Does „not too impressed“ mean they are worse than a normal propeller or just not better?
They seem to make the ride smoother, but they don't seem to help much with distance/runtime per battery charge. Like a minimal/marginal improvement in that regard, vs a standard prop.
The same thing exists for eFoils. We (riders) haven't been too impressed with them.
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"Burr, it's cold in here ..."
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The largest "monitor" I can see on Newegg right now is 48" diagonal:
https://www.newegg.ca/lg-48gq900-b-48-uhd-120-hz-refresh-rat...
And that's an outlier— most are 27-36", with 32" being the overwhelming sweet spot.
In contrast, my TV is 77" diagonal, and most people would consider 55" to be about the minimum size for a new TV at this point, outside of special applications such as the bedroom/kitchen/etc. I don't know where I'd begin to go about purchasing a 77" 4K display from a digital signage vendor.
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would buy a physical tv that big. I decided to get a projector. Huge surface area. Goes away/out of my sight for the 98% of the time I'm not using/watching it.
I'm kinda split between it and the original G3 range (slot loading preferably, but in the original bright transparent colours before it got weird with stuff like "blue Dalmatian"). The anglepoise Mac is kinda near beginning of the rather sterile Apple aesthetic that has never gone away, but it's also incredibly neat in a packaging sense that a CRT could never be. I kinda want a combination, but I'm not sure if you could get away with the colour bits on an all-in-one without the large area needed for the CRT neck...
The Blue and White PowerMac G3 is my ultimate best looking Mac, there's something about the giant G3 on the sides, and the bold colours for what is a "professional" system. Sadly it all got toned down for the G4...
As a owner of both slot load and tray load G3's, I strongly prefer the tray loaders. The drives still work, while I have to jam a credit card with double-sided tape into the drive to get a disc out of the slot load drive.
The ironic thing is, when Steve Jobs introduced this form factor, he made a joke about the “obvious” choice just being a flat slab with the computer guts tucked behind the monitor. But Apple would never do something that boring! https://youtu.be/k74NgDbR7gI?si=zEgsUiQazXB5f1dP&t=3777
The really should have kept that design around longer, iterated on it.
Maybe it just wasn't possible to put a G5 on that small of a logic board, but it's still an absolutely stunning computer. I have one sitting on my kitchen counter right now!