Hmmm hadn't come across those hamburger jobbies ye in my travels, but they sound like what i have been looking for... may have to see about sourcing some for testing purposes iif nothing else... perhaps hack them to fit one iMac, and try the other ones in the other iMac to draw a comparison.... ah the joys of having multiple iMacs 
And yeh for what it's worth I guess if these factory H-K's had a finite life-expextancy anyway then the high school computer lab environment of the early 2000's would make for some of the most brutal failures... I remember in 8th grade computer studies back in 2001 in... the intrinsic novelty value of shiney new Macs with awsome speakers resulted in just about every lesson having "Kill You", "Purple Pills", "The Next Episode", "Sandstorm" and all that hectic bass-heavy music bellowing over the top of it the moment teach left the room. That kinda thing certainly couldnt have been kind to em.... In saying this however, the ones from the primary school next door to my house (my SNow being one of them) were all in the same state as well, and I cant imagine that they would have played too much Eminem, Dr Dre or DaRude throught them in their time. Well at least I hope not or my faith in the public school system may have just waned a little more. :lol:
And yeh for what it's worth I guess if these factory H-K's had a finite life-expextancy anyway then the high school computer lab environment of the early 2000's would make for some of the most brutal failures... I remember in 8th grade computer studies back in 2001 in... the intrinsic novelty value of shiney new Macs with awsome speakers resulted in just about every lesson having "Kill You", "Purple Pills", "The Next Episode", "Sandstorm" and all that hectic bass-heavy music bellowing over the top of it the moment teach left the room. That kinda thing certainly couldnt have been kind to em.... In saying this however, the ones from the primary school next door to my house (my SNow being one of them) were all in the same state as well, and I cant imagine that they would have played too much Eminem, Dr Dre or DaRude throught them in their time. Well at least I hope not or my faith in the public school system may have just waned a little more. :lol: