Fifty Shades Of Graphite

[Scott Baret]

Better designed? Have you ever used a CD-ROM drive on a tray loader?

 

[iMac600]

With both a Tray Load Strawberry 266 and two Slot Load Graphite 400/600s side by side, it's the Tray Loader that undoubtedly has the extra structural rigidity. Fewer panel gaps, stiffer plastics and it doesn't creak whenever it's lifted or opened. I can't say that I've ever had an issue with the Tray Load drives in these machines either, and I used them as a daily so those optical drives did get quite a workout.

I've had three in total, a Grape, a Lime and the current Strawberry. They aren't bad overall.

Perhaps one of the downsides I can see is the TL's Flyback Transformer. I hear they could have a few issues as they get older.

 

[Bunsen]

front inner bezel. The plastics flake away and there's no way I can think this could be resolved, except perhaps a light coat of some kind of epoxy resin, thick enough to brace it, thin enough to allow the computer to still fit together

In keeping with the theme here, how about carbon fibre?