You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.
FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!
…I’m going to put a raspberry pi inside.
Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan
Submitted 3 months ago by shoulderoforion@fedia.io to technology@lemmy.world
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
stoneparchment@possumpat.io 3 months ago
AAAHHH
I NEEEEED IITTT
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Needs more stickers peeling off.
Has it got a turbo button that just switches a light on?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.
JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
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 3 months ago
I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even
leisesprecher@feddit.org 3 months ago
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.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 3 months ago
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.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Then just say “something” not “someone” if you’re talking about things and not people. There’s no need to create unnecessary problems.
Allero@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Never would have thought about racism, honestly :D
But such a care is something to admire
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 months 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).
Wahots@pawb.social 3 months ago
NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Does it really have plexi/glass side/top? Why on Earth?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why not?
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s ugly AF and totally breaks the concept. At least that’s what I think about it.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just keep in mind the longer you have one the yellower it gets
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 months ago
Just being able to fit a modern GPU inside makes it top-tier.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
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.
Cyber@feddit.uk 3 months ago
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
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
With a preserved “shadow” of the keyboard
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build…
woodenskewer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I’m excited about it.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
I shouldn’t want that and yet I do.
Heywaitaminute@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Meanwhile I’ve got a ryzen 7800/radeon 6800 system housed in a full sized beige tower that I’ve had since like 1998.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬
PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Black is the new beige.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d much rather have a modern take on a 90s AT InWin case or something. Rock solid, tons of I/O options and very tall.
M33@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Does it play Tokyo Drift as a boot sound?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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 3 months ago
I can sell you one with real floppy drives!
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.