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Jobs didn't like it.
喬布斯并不喜歡這個箱子。
He wanted a simple and elegant design,
他想要的是筒單又精致的設計，
which he hoped would set Apple apart from the other machines, with their clunky gray metal cases.
可以讓蘋果電腦從那些配有笨重的灰色金屬箱的電腦中脫穎而出。
While haunting the appliance aisles at Macy's,
有一次他在梅西百貨的家用電器通道閑逛時，
he was struck by the Cuisinart food processors and decided that he wanted a sleek case made of light molded plastic.
廚藝公司的食品加工機觸發了他的靈感，他決定要一個光滑的機箱，
At a Homebrew meeting, he offered a local consultant, Jerry Manock, $1,500 to produce such a design.
由輕便的模制塑料制成。在一次家釀計算機俱樂部的會議上，他出價1500美元，請一名當地的技術顧問杰里·馬諾克將這個設計制造出來。
Manock, dubious about Jobs's appearance, asked for the money up front.
喬布斯的著裝形象讓馬諾克有些半信半疑，他要求喬布斯預支報酬。
Jobs refused, but Manock took the job anyway.
喬布斯拒絕了，但馬諾克還是接受了這份工作。
Within weeks he had produced a simple foam-molded plastic case that was uncluttered and exuded friendliness.
幾個星期后，他就做出了一個簡單的發泡成型的塑料箱，整齊簡潔5看上去很友好。
Jobs was thrilled.
喬布斯十分激動。
Next came the power supply.
接下來是電源的問題。
Digital geeks like Wozniak paid little attention to something so analog and mundane,
像沃茲尼亞克這樣的數字極客是不大會關注電源這種不起眼的部分的，
but Jobs decided it was a key component.
但喬布斯認為這是一個關鍵部件。
In particular he wanted—as he would his entire career—to provide power in a way that avoided the need for a fan.
具體地說，他想要的——也是他整個職業生涯一直追求的——是在不使用風扇的情況下供電。
Fans inside computers were not Zen-like; they distracted.
計算機內部的風扇有悖于禪意，它們的噪音會讓人無法集中精神。
He dropped by Atari to consult with Alcorn, who knew old-fashioned electrical engineering.
喬布斯去雅達利公司咨詢奧爾康，他了解老式的電氣工程。
"Al turned me on to this brilliant guy named Rod Holt,
“奧爾康把一個叫羅德·霍爾特的聰明家伙介紹給我，
who was a chain-smoking Marxist who had been through many marriages and was an expert on everything," Jobs recalled.
這是個煙不離手的馬克思主義者，結過多次婚，精通所有事物。”喬布斯回憶。
Like Manock and others meeting Jobs for the first time, Holt took a look at him and was skeptical.
和馬諾克以及其他第一次見到喬布斯的人一樣，霍爾特打量了他一番，滿腹狐疑。
"I'm expensive," Holt said.
“我收費很髙的。”霍爾特說。
Jobs sensed he was worth it and said that cost was no problem.
喬布斯感覺到此人一定物有所值，于是說錢不是問題。
"He just conned me into working," said Holt, who ended up joining Apple full-time.
“他就這么說服我為他工作了。”霍爾特說，他后來加入蘋果公司，成為了一名全職員工。
Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one like those used in oscilloscopes.
霍爾特并沒有使用傳統的線性電源，而是制造了一個與示波器等儀器上使用的相類似的開關電源。
It switched the power on and off not sixty times per second, but thousands of times;
這就意味著，在一秒鐘之內，通斷電的次數不是60次，而是上千次，
this allowed it to store the power for far less time, and thus throw off less heat.
這樣電源存儲電能的時間就大大減少，散熱量也隨之減少。
