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\"\"No, this isn’t a gingerbread house with solar panels and ultra-effecient air conditioning units \u2013 although you would be forgiven for thinking that considering Other World Computing’s\u00a0environmental initiatives and\u00a0Platinum Certified\u00a0green headquarters<\/a>\u00a0in Woodstock, Illinois. This is a gingerbread house made partly from computer parts by our very own OWC Dena of our accounting department to proudly display in our front lobby.<\/p>\n

Dena crafted the house from traditional ingredients \u2013 gingerbread, frosting and candy. But she also used computer parts to give it a festive OWC theme. The roof shingles are actually OWC memory modules<\/a>, the walls are made from fans, and the messages on the front of the house are comprised of Apple keyboard keys and an old hard disk drive platter.\u00a0Of course, the gingerbread house was made with non-functional memory modules<\/strong>, so don’t worry about your order arriving come with a layer of frosting and crumbs. :-)<\/p>\n

And while OWC parts make for a wonderful looking gingerbread house, we can’t recommend them for this use. Besides, they work much better in<\/em> your computer anyway!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, this isn’t a gingerbread house with solar panels and ultra-effecient air conditioning units \u2013 although you would be forgiven for thinking that considering Other World Computing’s\u00a0environmental initiatives and\u00a0Platinum Certified\u00a0green headquarters\u00a0in Woodstock, Illinois. 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