No, chrome was never really considered. It was supposed to look slightly unrefined, somewhat brash, totally in your face. Aluminum was selected because of the tooling budget that NetApp could afford at the time and because of the expected volume of the F540. Had we known that we'd sell as many F540s as we did, thing may have turned out differently.

David

-----Original Message----- From: kls@netapp.com [mailto:kls@netapp.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 12:20 PM To: hitz@netapp.com Cc: jeff.mohler@wilcom.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Dell Deal

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Is there any way we can get some -real- faces on the F760s?

Seriously, my management was quite unhappy to see four non-matching purple plastic faces on our 760s after the sweet Stainless on the demo 630 we had *grin*

Polished aluminum, actually. It was really supposed to be chrome, but the story I heard was that chrome would have been *really* expensive.

The most consistent complaint that we've had about the 700 series is that the bezel isn't "cool" enough.

I've done some serious rabble rousing, and I've gotten a strong commitment that the bezel on our next high end system will be cool.

A refrigerated bezel? :-)

I guess a refrigerated toaster wouldn't make much sense.

-- Karl