Steve Jobs's Hatred For This Computer Part Led To One Of Apple's Biggest Tech Failures Of All Time — But MacBook Neo Finally Perfects His Vision
Steve Jobs' long-running dislike of cooling fans helped doom one of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) earliest business computers, the Apple III, but Apple's newly released fanless MacBook Neo may be the closest the company has come to turning that old aesthetic obsession into a practical mainstream product.
Apple III Showed The Cost Of Silence
The contrast is striking because what was a costly engineering failure in 1980 now looks technically and practically achievable since Apple can finally pair passive cooling with far more efficient silicon.
In 2022, CNBC revisited the Apple III episode, noting that the machine, released in 1980 for business users, featured expanded keyboard functions and a larger display. Jobs reportedly insisted it have no cooling fan and no vents because he wanted it to run quietly. Engineers tried to compensate with an aluminum case, but the system still overheated, at times hot enough to damage internal chips and even floppy disks.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak later said the Apple III "had 100 percent hardware failures," and Apple replaced the first 14,000 units ...
Source: Benzinga