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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 03:01 PM EST |
1. IEC Regulation with the force of law, essential amendment, $188.
2. The article refers throughout to the "professional" model,
ie. the users are s'posed to know what they are doing. Well no,
even in New Zealand we distinguish professional users by requiring
that access to naughty bits should require the use of hand tools.
MacPro's easy click latches don't cut it.
Add to that the fact that fan guards reduce airflow, and increase noise,
possibly dropping a notch on the EU's fanatical Energy Efficiency scale.
I can't find yet what the story is with power socket shielding.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 12:35 PM EST |
I am not a regulatory consultant and my experience is medical devices but it is
not a legal requirment to comply with a harmonised standard like IEC EN 60950.
It IS a legal requirment to comply with the appropriate directives such as the
low voltage directive and compliance with the relevant harmonised standards
gives a presumption of compliance with the directive.
If Apple felt strongly the new requirments, whatever they are, do not make sense
they are free not to meet them but must then be prepared to justify that despite
this they in fact the do meet the directives, in this case essentially that they
are safe.
We do this on medical devices where the standard writers had not anticipated the
characteristics of genuinely new devices so the harmonised standard for these
specific devices genuinely does not make sense. This is quite different than
simply not wanting to meet a requirment because it is awkward or inconvenient.
In apples case it is difficult to think of anything more standard and generic
than the MacPRO so if they do not comply it is probably because there is some
genuine issue. A product with the ability to stick a finger in a spinning fan
(mentioned in the report), if true, seems a quite obvious safety problem. It
will cause an injury, albeit one that is normally minor, but with possible
secondary problem caused by blood in the vicinity of electrical equipment plus
infection etc. In small childeren it could cause more significant problems,
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- Possibly fatal? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 05:37 PM EST
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