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I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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I'll wait for the beige tower
With this design you have a few fans closer to your ears. That will also sound retro. Not 100 percent convinced.
Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬
But why into blue LEDs?
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?
Be like my smart friend and put fridge magnets on it
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.
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.
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.
Your attempts at using homophobia as an insult were ruined by your failure to look at the word "Queen" in my username.
Either I'm a woman, or I'm a gay man, meaning I'm probably into beige towers of guys and your joke has failed.
Btw, I'm a woman.
Your attempts at using homophobia
Stop, we are not doing this. If that's where you mind goes on the first thought, that's on you.
Either I'm a woman, or I'm a gay man, meaning I'm probably into beige towers of guys and your joke has failed.
The joke stays the same, some might find it funny others might not. It's generally not very proper to talk about dicks in a general conversation, no matter how much you like them or not.
Btw, I'm a woman.
Congratulations, I don't know why you had to bring that up, but I'm very happy for you.
I'm not happy at all.
Btw, I'm a man.
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).
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!
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.
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
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.
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
Right??? Also you need a 13 inch monogrome green screen. Like the original game boy......except giant.
.....what? 13 inches WAS giant back then.
I think big was 17 inches, but they were like 24 deep and 50lbs.
I bet USB c connections could fit in a floppy drive slot
AAAHHH
I NEEEEED IITTT
NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)
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'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.
finally, an NEC PC-108
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.
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...