Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan
Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan
You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.
You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.
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FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!
........I'm going to put a raspberry pi inside.
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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.
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I can sell you one with real floppy drives!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I bet USB c connections could fit in a floppy drive slot
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Needs more stickers peeling off.
Has it got a turbo button that just switches a light on?
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Be like my smart friend and put fridge magnets on it
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The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.
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AAAHHH
I NEEEEED IITTT
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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.
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NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)
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Just keep in mind the longer you have one the yellower it gets
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finally, an NEC PC-108
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Just being able to fit a modern GPU inside makes it top-tier.
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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.
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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
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That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.
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With a preserved "shadow" of the keyboard
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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.
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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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ah sorry that was a typo
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Never would have thought about racism, honestly :D
But such a care is something to admire
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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).
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I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build...
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I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I'm excited about it.
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I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.
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With this design you have a few fans closer to your ears. That will also sound retro. Not 100 percent convinced.
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I'll wait for the beige tower
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I shouldn't want that and yet I do.
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Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬
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But why into blue LEDs?
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Because blue LEDs are a MIRACLE, dammit!
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Black is the new beige.
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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.
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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...
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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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Does it play Tokyo Drift as a boot sound?