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I don't get it. If you were a company selling bespoke computers on the grounds that they're stunningly beautiful and feature fanatical attention to detail, you'd make sure the text on your website didn't alias really badly, wouldn't you?

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I don’t get it either. Why bother applying leather or goldplating when, in the end, it’s still the same old butt-ugly PC case with a bazillion panels covering more drive bays than you’ll ever need? Buy a Mac instead!

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Lapsed: physicist and television producer. Now: media consultant/freelance film-maker, trying to reignite public-service children's media, particularly around science and engineering.

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