Oh, and the price matched the engineering! :) And the best part? The keyboard and mouse were surrounded by a thin rubber bumper to muffle any plastic "clump" sound that would otherwise be made if the mouse were to bump into the keyboard. Full size power, brightness, and audio keys above the arrow keys. The NeXT keys and mouse were awesome too - control key where it belongs, no traditional "caps lock" key. Air was pulled in through a row of holes across the top of the rear of the case, flowed past the CPU heatsink, pushed out via a downward-facing fan near the front of the case, then back under the case past the power supply heatsink, and finally out the lower left rear of the case. Still, my favorite part of the NeXTstation was the airflow design. The 4 screws were just about perfect - they kept tool-less folks from poking around inside, and the prevented the need for cheap "easy to use" latches and such. The NeXTstation slab was built with the precision of a swiss watch and the strength of a bulldozer.
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