Computer spectacular

My new computer is transparent, you can see inside it. I think the idea is, you can see how it works. But is it really possible to see how a computer works, and even if you can, is it worth it, should you pay more for the experience?

It might be possible to see how a computer works, but only if the components and connecting cables were transparent, and if each byte of data were colour-coded, and if computers were several billion times slower than they are now.
In this scenario, Old Grandpa, who like so many elderly people is a computer expert, would have time to sniff the breeze, look up at the sky, glance at what he calls ‘the line’ and what everybody else calls the connecting cables, observe an approaching byte and drawl: “Reckon there’s an MP3 a’comin’ on down the line.”
Of course, it isn’t like this, there’s nothing to see inside a computer case, at least there are no moving parts to see.
Apart, that is, from the cooling fans..
I’m currently watching the blades of the cooling fan on my computer spin around. Well, to be more exact, I’m watching the blades of the cooling fan on the computer processor spin around.
I could have watched the blades on the cooling fan at the back of the computer case spin around, but after careful consideration I decided that it would be more exciting to watch the blades on the computer processor’s fan spin around.
This might appear to have been a difficult decision. Surely it must have been as difficult as trying to judge a couple of ambitious limbo dancers who are trying to ease themselves through a cat flap, for example. Will they make it or won’t they make it? If they do make it, what will be the extent of their spinal injuries?
Or as difficult as trying to judge a couple of suicidal high-wire tight-rope walkers who have decided to attempt their feat without wearing the correct footwear, and have decided to wear lead deep-sea diving boots instead.
Will they plummet to the ground head first, or will they plummet to the ground lead deep-sea diving boots first, instead?
So why was it more exciting to watch the blades on the computer processor fan spin around? What was it that gave it that extra ‘oomph’, that ‘wow factor’ – what was it about this particular fan that made watching it so worthwhile?
It might have been the little blue logo in the centre of the fan, it looks so pretty when it’s spinning around – in fact it’s hypnotic.
Naturally, I paid a little more – well, quite a lot more really, for the experience.
But it was worth it,
I think..