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...Apparently a small bunch of Palm users have had rather nasty shocks to their system. Static electricity, they say, has somehow made its way from their Palm cradles to their PCs during the HotSync process, which is where the two exchange and back up information. Result: fried motherboard. This appears to have happened enough times for San Francisco attorneys to file a class-action lawsuit last week. The law firm has garnered testimony from at least 40 new complainants since the suit started to be publicized. Palm maintains it is not aware of any such problem...
...brushed steel encased in transparent, light-catching plastic. With silver wires feeding it from beneath, it looks like a floating digital brain, and certainly qualifies as an objet d'art. When I wasn't gawking at my test model, I was groping it. I had to pluck the motherboard-and-hard-drive core from its housing just to make sure there weren't any dilithium crystals hidden within (instant disassembly is one of the Cube's neater features...
...What's up, Appz? You got skillz?" Skat asks, mugging for the camera. She steps back to read aloud his offer to swap pirated content for high-tech gear. "Appz wants to trade a Star Wars screener for a new motherboard PII 200 with a sound card...
...make things worse, by the early 90s Intel had begun to turn a lucrative profit on the so-called motherboard chipset that supported the CPU. Manufacturers had to build bulky, awkward system boards to house Intel's CPU and its separate input-output chips...
What's more, Cyrix's new MediaGX chips began to integrate most of the motherboard components and the CPPU on a single chip. System integrators such as Compaq have responded by designing systems around these chips that require much less engineering and electronic assembly, slashing prices to levels unheard-of a year...