Apple Chromebox

Yesterday I tweeted about Samsung’s Chromebox being remarkably similar in design to Apple’s Mac Mini. Today, Dustin Curtis had the same thought.

You can see what we’re talking about when you look at the bottom of the Mac Mini: macmini

And the bottom of the Chromebox: chromeass

But I think it’s even worse than that. In an earlier tweet, I made this observation:

See, I don’t think that the bottom vent on the Chromebox is even functional as a vent like it is on the Mac Mini. There are already vents on the back for expelling heat, the slits on the bottom seem to be some sort of dead-stick auxiliary vent of some sort, maybe just for intake. They’re even blocked in places by bits of internals.

chromebutt

So, in the end, Samsung was able to copy the look of the Mac Mini’s vent, but wasn’t actually able to copy the way that it works. Suitably ridiculous.

 
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