Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress?

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

Where can we get this? Do they exist for laptop/notebooks too?

The Blinkenlights of the BeBox were custom hardware built into the case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bebox_CPU_LEDs.jpg

With a desktop PC you might be able to make something like it using
programmable LED strips that are meant to be used inside cases, but you'd
still need your own custom software to drive them.  For a laptop you'd
pretty much have to have it built in by the manufacturer of the laptop,
though I suppose you could make a crude implementation of Blinkenlights
with custom USB hardware.

You also run into the problem that modern computers have way more than
just two CPU cores.

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