Mac or Windows Potatoes?

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Way off topic but I could not resist...

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> Computer's chips turn into potatoes
> Ben Aris in Berlin
> Monday January 12 2004
> The Guardian
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> Staff at a department store in the German city of Kaiserslautern 
> called detectives after an angry customer tried to return a computer 
> stuffed with potatoes to the shop twice on the same day.
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> The man berated sales assistants in the store, complaining that the 
> computer he had bought only hours before did not work, according to 
> police reports.
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> The store's staff opened the machine and discovered it was not 
> functioning because its working parts had been replaced with small 
> potatoes. The bemused shop assistants gave the man a new computer free 
> of charge.
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> But bemusement turned to suspicion when the shopper returned a short 
> while later with another computer - again potato-filled.
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> Police were called and the man was arrested.
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> A spokesman said: "The second time he said he didn't need a computer 
> any more and asked for his money back in cash." Roman Zukoan, a 
> computer technician who works in the Nexos computer shop, also in 
> Kaiserslautern, said: "It is hard to imagine how the potatoes could 
> get into a computer's casing.
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> "When computers leave the factory they are packed in plastic to 
> prevent damage from condensation.
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> "If they are running for a long time they get hot and in theory it 
> would be possible to cook a potato in a computer, but who would try 
> that?"
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