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« Reply #60 on: November 26, 2005, 01:08:24 PM »
Imo, external power supplies are a great idea in general.

It just provides better design and layout of the internal hardware. Only ppl who live in a cardboard box won\'t have enough space to place a powerbrick.
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« Reply #61 on: November 26, 2005, 07:35:55 PM »
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Imo, external power supplies are a great idea in general.

It just provides better design and layout of the internal hardware. Only ppl who live in a cardboard box won\'t have enough space to place a powerbrick.


Or a dorm room.
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« Reply #62 on: November 26, 2005, 07:37:47 PM »
how many huge ass power bricks do you want before it\'s too many?
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« Reply #63 on: November 27, 2005, 06:39:21 AM »
LOL mm\'s got a point there.Imagine how many powerbricks you ll have behind your TV if every company adopts this? :laughing:

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Imo, external power supplies are a great idea in general.

It just provides better design and layout of the internal hardware. Only ppl who live in a cardboard box won\'t have enough space to place a powerbrick.


Japanese will hate it thats for sure ;)

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« Reply #64 on: November 27, 2005, 06:53:39 AM »
Didn\'t the GameCube use an external power supply? It had to, to retain that size!
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« Reply #65 on: November 27, 2005, 07:07:34 AM »
See, both the Cube and PStwo use modest powerbricks which benefits the
console\'s form factor.

Big Xbox1 uses a powerbrick despite it\'s own bulky size. I bet both Nintendo and Sony can learn a lesson from all this and have some flawless powerbrick solution for their new consoles.
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« Reply #66 on: November 27, 2005, 07:09:49 AM »
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Didn\'t the GameCube use an external power supply? It had to, to retain that size!
Yeah but both the console and the external power supply were smaller

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« Reply #67 on: November 27, 2005, 07:38:21 AM »
if a powerbrick has a fan, you know they fucked up somewhere in the design phase

and if the power supply is bigger than a PC\'s....
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« Reply #68 on: November 27, 2005, 09:46:39 AM »
Fact is, only these devices need a separate power brick so I\'m not worried about "too many".

TV\'s - will always have self contained power supply units, since they generate plenty of heat anyways, and are large enough to acomodate them.  DVD/CD/Media players will always have them integrated because these are low-power units.  Amps and preamps are big-draw, but then again the whole point of these units is to amp the power so again, they integrate.  

Really, it\'s only gaming systems that will have to have separate power supplies, and that\'s because they are the same as a dedicated PC - but smaller, running in a confined space for long periods of time.  Makes sense for these units to have a power brick separate.  For me, the very bottom of my electronics \'rack\' to the right of my TV is where all transformers/adapters/power units go, so you don\'t see them unless you go looking.  With a few minutes any decent setup can hide it\'s wires/cords from most viewing angles.
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« Reply #69 on: November 27, 2005, 10:30:13 AM »
^Agreed.

Look at modern case designs from Dell, Antec, Apple etc.

They all create these seperate compartments for the hefty PSU. They use special isolation materials to minimize heat and electrical influence of the PSU on the rest of the hardware.

I don\'t even find my PStwo\'s powerbrick ugly, so i don\'t even really hide it from sight.
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« Reply #70 on: November 27, 2005, 04:20:08 PM »
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« Reply #71 on: November 27, 2005, 05:04:55 PM »
^^^^

I think laying a few pillows on top of it would work better than letting it breathe...

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« Reply #72 on: November 27, 2005, 05:58:00 PM »
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http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/11/27/158237.shtml?tid=211&tid=1

:rolleyes:


Hehe, string?
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« Reply #73 on: November 27, 2005, 06:00:11 PM »
Yeah...

...string. That would look quite lame. Giant ass power supply box dangling in the air.

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« Reply #74 on: November 27, 2005, 06:14:17 PM »
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Yeah...

...string. That would look quite lame. Giant ass power supply box dangling in the air.


Its so big I didn\'t even think it was possible without like a steel cable, lol.
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