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

  • @Heywaitaminute@lemmy.world
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    24 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.

  • @LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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    44 months ago

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

  • @JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
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    104 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
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      54 months ago

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

      • @leisesprecher@feddit.org
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        44 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.

        • @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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          34 months 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.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    34 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.

  • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    464 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.

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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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.

      • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        84 months 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.

      • @schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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        44 months ago

        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.

        • @Cort@lemmy.world
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          124 months ago

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

          • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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            14 months 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.

        • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          94 months 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.

    • @elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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      24 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.

  • @Zip2@feddit.uk
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    154 months ago

    Needs more stickers peeling off.

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