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Total Apple move: be late to the game but act like you were first to market.

EverCase (http://www.evercase.co.uk/) has been selling 'retro' cases for years, though I don't think they would call them that, more like utilitarian.

Since when have PC cases been required to have acrylic windows and rainbow lighting? I've always thought it was foolish.

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They are specifically making the case similar in style to certain older Japanese computers, that's the retro aspect. They do not act like they are first to market, they made a joke ps pseudo-pc98 product and people liked it enough to make it real

They should make a case looking like an X68000 next.

The dream. One side for the MB/CPU and the other for the GPU with a weird little pcie bridge in the middle. Pleasssse.

It's odd living in the tech designs of the past. While thinking of the x68000 Elite I remembered the "BMW Design Level 10 Case by Thermaltake" (just say no to the GT and GTS versions) and started wondering if/how long before that complete goofball of a case gets a cult following and a remake. Then I started wondering what are the designs folks younger than myself have fallen in love with? I'd love to know.

Are you reading April as Apple? SilverStone (FTA, 2013[0]) is older than EverCase (2016 [1])

[0]: https://archive.is/3ZOsS

[1]: https://archive.is/LbW3q

Your last point is really a sore point of mine nowadays, it appears I can only get aquariums instead of a proper PC tower like in the good old days.

For anyone not feeling like building a custom PC tower around my region, it is either a proper case with sucky hardware like i5 CPUs, or proper hardware configuration, packaged in rainbows from all forms and colours.

> it appears I can only get aquariums instead of a proper PC tower like in the good old days.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-...

That case is okay, but a solid front that limits airflow is still a bit tilted a bit away from proper in my mind.

I like this case for the huge fan and having a bunch of drive bays: https://www.phanteks.store/collections/enthoo-series/product...

They also make several alternative options, such as https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshif... or https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/torrent/torren... for high airflow applications. Build quality of these is excellent, and they’re still reasonably unobtrusive solid black towers.

I have a Meshify 2 for my main desktop with a 5800X and a 3090 for airflow, and a Define 7 for my home server with 10x HDDs, for quietness’s sake. The frustrating part now is opaque sided cases are lower volume parts, and usually more expensive as a result :/

Some retailers on my European corners, nice.

The Asus ap201 has a configuration thats all mesh rather than acrylic. It gets kinda tight though with external drives.

Looks indeed nice, thing is, getting a local vendor that actually has it with a good configuration.

Plain black box cases are not exactly rare, pretty much all major manufacturers produce them in masses

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/case/#sort=-rating&f=2&B=1...

You missed the part of not wanting to build a custom PC, and getting a computer in a local vendor.

That seems like a problem with your local vendors.

What do you mean by proper? Is it a synonym for good?

From the look of it evercases do not include last 15 years of discoveries around cable routing, variable screw slots for fans, etc. SilverStone case seems to be modern intestines in retro outfit.

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