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Flooding and PC Towers

November 13th, 2009 at Fri, 13th, 2009 at 7:44 pm by Changlin Li

As some of you may know, the Bellevue Reporter offices flooded when a water pipe broke last week and the reporters moved to the Mercer Island Reporter for a week before moving back to the Bellevue Reporter. Well, what does this have to do with technology (besides perhaps the failure of it)?

The Bellevue Reporter offices have both iMacs (and an eMac that the author gets to use) and PCs running Windows. The Macs survived the flood. The PCs got fried. Why? The reason itself is pretty mundane and has little to do with the build quality of either, except perhaps for the lack of a completely sealed, waterproof PC case (those pesky PC manufacturers, failing to seal their PCs with cases capable of being utterly inundated, how could they fail to foresee such a circumstance?). The iMacs are all-in-one computers with all the hardware components stuffed behind the display. They sit on our desks at all times. However, the hardware components of a PC, apart from the monitor, are stored in a separate tower case. When you have a tower case, to save space on the desk, you usually place it on the floor… Then a flood happens.

Our PCs are still suffering from unfortunate dihydrogen monoxide poisoning. It looks they are all pretty much dead and we’ll have to get new ones. So the next time you’re thinking about floods when you’re buying a PC (who doesn’t associate flooding with computing) make sure to get one with a nice enough case that you wouldn’t mind sticking on top of your desk. Or just get a Mac*.

*Or any other all-in-one computer.

Changlin Li Changlin Li is an intern here at the Bellevue Reporter and is a student at Interlake High School, who is currently in the throes of the college admissions process. Contact him at cli@bellevuereporter.com with any comments you might have.

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