Posted 08/05/2007 at 11:41:19am

There are times when the geeks of the world resemble the US's GOP. They get so wrapped up in the "This is the way we have always done it" that they won't even look at something that could benefit them in the long run. Why do we put the CPU in an area that is soaked in heat. Someone tried to put the CPU on the backside of the MB and it got laughed out of the room. You could use the whole outside wall of the case as a heatsink instead of the postage stamp we are now forced to use. Yes you can port the heat outside with liquid but that ads extra junk on the inside. Take a look at the backside of any computer today. There are ports that we haven't used in a decade why are they still there? There are a few brave individuals and they usually do something because of $$$'s. I saw a Dell the other day that no longer had the PS2 plugs. It also didn't have a floppy. Since USB is at boot up you can use a USB Drive to do what the floppy used to do. Those that think of themselves as being on the cutting edge in many cases are mired in the past.