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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

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 someone 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

AAAHHH

I NEEEEED IITTT

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

finally, an NEC PC-108

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

It's ugly AF and totally breaks the concept. At least that's what I think about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I shouldn't want that and yet I do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'd much rather have a modern take on a 90s InWin case or something. Rock solid, tons of I/O options and very tall.

Modern cases need to bring back optical drive bays...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

I can sell you one with real floppy drives!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I bet USB c connections could fit in a floppy drive slot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Everything is removable with the right tools

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly the mismatching beiges just make it even more period correct. At least from how I remember them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Right??? Also you need a 13 inch monogrome green screen. Like the original game boy......except giant.

.....what? 13 inches WAS giant back then.