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You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Just keep in mind the longer you have one the yellower it gets

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!

........I'm going to put a raspberry pi inside.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago

I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Needs more stickers peeling off.

Has it got a turbo button that just switches a light on?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Be like my smart friend and put fridge magnets on it

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago

Does it play Tokyo Drift as a boot sound?

[–] Bogusmcfakester@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I'll wait for the beige tower

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

With this design you have a few fans closer to your ears. That will also sound retro. Not 100 percent convinced.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 23 hours ago

With a preserved "shadow" of the keyboard

Just being able to fit a modern GPU inside makes it top-tier.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I can sell you one with real floppy drives!

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything is removable with the right tools

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago

No no no, it is in fact still hammer time, but there are 26 main types of hammer and countless subtypes

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.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Then just say "something" not "someone" if you're talking about things and not people. There's no need to create unnecessary problems.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

ah sorry that was a typo

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Never would have thought about racism, honestly :D

But such a care is something to admire

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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).

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Black is the new beige.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Because blue LEDs are a MIRACLE, dammit!

[–] stoneparchment@possumpat.io 12 points 1 day ago

AAAHHH

I NEEEEED IITTT

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Does it really have plexi/glass side/top? Why on Earth?

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[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

finally, an NEC PC-108

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build...

[–] woodenskewer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I'm excited about it.

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