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FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!
........I'm going to put a raspberry pi inside.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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It's a little too tongue in cheek with the faux disk Bays. I'd rather see something that takes the 80s asthetic but modernizes it a bit. Still a roomy easy to work on case that pays homage to the esthetic rather than kind of mocks it.
I can sell you one with real floppy drives!
Yeah there was a lot of really nice design going on at the time. This looks like the discount cases from the early 90s clones.
It's really too bad they couldn't have made the bay covers either plain or actually look like a floppy drive.
So close, and yet, so far.
If they're removable, could just put actual floppy drives in.
EDIT: Oh, they're flip-down drawer covers rather than fixed panels. Well, still might be removable.
A drawer option would've been sweet. I love my 5.25" drawer. Perfect for flash drives, dongles, extra screws, little screwdriver, or a hiding spot almost nobody would know is there.
Everything is removable with the right tools
All I have is a hammer. I was told in the early 90s that it's Hammer time. I was never told of a ceasing of it being Hammer time.
No no no, it is in fact still hammer time, but there are 26 main types of hammer and countless subtypes
I mean even if you could remove them, the problem is that beige is not always the same beige: same problem you had 30 years ago.
The colors would never, at any point, remotely match the rest of the beige, and it'd be nice if a premium product that exists only for the aesthetics, would have just you know, done that last itty bitty little thing so it'd look right (from at least a distance) and be color matched.
Honestly the mismatching beiges just make it even more period correct. At least from how I remember them
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Needs more stickers peeling off.
Has it got a turbo button that just switches a light on?
Be like my smart friend and put fridge magnets on it
The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.
Meanwhile I've got a ryzen 7800/radeon 6800 system housed in a full sized beige tower that I've had since like 1998.
Just keep in mind the longer you have one the yellower it gets
AAAHHH
I NEEEEED IITTT
I'd love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.
I'd pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.
I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even
Something like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer.
Pipedream, I know.
SSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.
NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)
It's just not quite yellow enough, esp. on 1 side where's it's been too close to a window... otherwise, yeah, bring back beige
That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.
With a preserved "shadow" of the keyboard
Just being able to fit a modern GPU inside makes it top-tier.
I'm going to guess that an old mid or full size tower could fit a modern GPU. With a bit of dremelling on the back you cold probably make it work. My son has been mulling such a mod.
Does it really have plexi/glass side/top? Why on Earth?
Why not?
It's ugly AF and totally breaks the concept. At least that's what I think about it.
I'd much prefer to have beige painted steel and some rail mounts on the side. Would totally swap one of my servers into that chassis.
I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.
With this design you have a few fans closer to your ears. That will also sound retro. Not 100 percent convinced.
Kinda glad to see this, I'd love to get a beige keyboard and tower, I mean the black looks cool, sleek, and futuristic, but... I just want something with more style and class.
For the record I'm talking about computers, not people, I just realized how racist that sounds out of context.
It only got racist after you just had to mention that you where talking about computers, not people.
Unless you normally talk about the huge beige towers of other guys.
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Then just say "something" not "someone" if you're talking about things and not people. There's no need to create unnecessary problems.
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Never would have thought about racism, honestly :D
But such a care is something to admire
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The "and prop your monitor on top" thing: I kinda wish there were more modern PC cases that could stand being horizontal. Most are designed to be towers.
finally, an NEC PC-108
I'll wait for the beige tower
Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬
Black is the new beige.
I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build...
I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I'm excited about it.
I shouldn't want that and yet I do.
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