Altitude?

[LuKreme]

On 4-Sep-2007, at 19:43, Hacker Scot wrote:
> Just noticed something in the iMac tech specs, alongside min/max  
> voltage, etc:
>
> - Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet
>
> ??? What components in a computer are altitude sensitive?
>
> Not that I plan to take my Mac up Everest any time soon... just  
> morbid curiosity.

Keep in mind that Everest is nearly three times that elevation.   
Leadville, CO, is higher than 10,000 feet<1>.  I've asked people in  
Leadville about this a few times and have yet to run into anyone who  
was 1) aware of the limit 2) did anything about it.

<1> The official elevation at the airport is 'only' 9927 feet, but  
the Town's official elevation is 10,152, and the airport is a ways  
outside of town. One other bit of senseless trivia, the county  
Leadville is in has a low elevation of 9,007 feet, making it the  
highest low for a county in at least the lower-48, if not in the 50  
states.

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