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Meanwhile I've got a ryzen 7800/radeon 6800 system housed in a full sized beige tower that I've had since like 1998.
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FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!
........I'm going to put a raspberry pi inside.
Needs more stickers peeling off.
Has it got a turbo button that just switches a light on?
The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.
Be like my smart friend and put fridge magnets on it
Just keep in mind the longer you have one the yellower it gets
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.
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.
I can sell you one with real floppy drives!
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
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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.
I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.
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
With this design you have a few fans closer to your ears. That will also sound retro. Not 100 percent convinced.
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.
AAAHHH
I NEEEEED IITTT
I'll wait for the beige tower
Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬
But why into blue LEDs?
Because blue LEDs are a MIRACLE, dammit!
Black is the new beige.
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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Never would have thought about racism, honestly :D
But such a care is something to admire
I think black irritates me less.
That said, I'd really like to have a fat-fat beige (maybe darker beige) laptop with a sensible keyboard (not one that can be heard from across the street, but one that still feels like one), which you can disassemble without even unscrewing anything (maybe a couple of bolts you don't need a screwdriver for), with enough space inside to put anything, and with a bloody antenna port and a transceiver.
It also should survive falling from my table a few times a month. And have water protection good enough for it to be normally usable at countryside during rain. Being outside.
Should have an AMOLED display or something like that.
A trackball.
And, of course, it should cost not more than MacBook Air.
The beige color here would help one really feel that this machine fucks.
I'm joking really (not in the part where I say I want that).
NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)
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.
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.
Does it play Tokyo Drift as a boot sound?
finally, an NEC PC-108
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