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Fifty Shades Of Graphite
Posted by: Scott Baret on 2012-07-09 20:35:49 Better designed? Have you ever used a CD-ROM drive on a tray loader?
Posted by: iMac600 on 2012-07-09 21:02:46 With both a Tray Load Strawberry 266 and two Slot Load Graphite 400/600s side by side, it's the Tray Loader that undoubtedly has the extra structural rigidity. Fewer panel gaps, stiffer plastics and it doesn't creak whenever it's lifted or opened. I can't say that I've ever had an issue with the Tray Load drives in these machines either, and I used them as a daily so those optical drives did get quite a workout. I've had three in total, a Grape, a Lime and the current Strawberry. They aren't bad overall. Perhaps one of the downsides I can see is the TL's Flyback Transformer. I hear they could have a few issues as they get older.
Posted by: Bunsen on 2012-07-11 12:04:06 front inner bezel. The plastics flake away and there's no way I can think this could be resolved, except perhaps a light coat of some kind of epoxy resin, thick enough to brace it, thin enough to allow the computer to still fit together In keeping with the theme here, how about carbon fibre?
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