Easy Access PC Cases?

swight1701 asks: "I remember seeing the MAC G4 case open for the first time and it was like a ray of light dropped down from above, and the Case was good. This has to have been the easiest access case in history, to be able to flip down the motherboard without removing any card from your PCI slots, genius. So why is it, like most of Apple's more frivilous case designs , and colors, was it not copied by other case manufacturers? If anyone HAS seen this, or know the reason why it wasn't, please tell us all!"

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Another thing...

[ptomblin]

Another great thing about the G4 case is that the cables are routed along the edge out of the way. You look at that Dell case somebody posted the URL for, and you still have IDE cables hanging in the air between the two halves. Not so with the G4, you don't even see the IDE cables unless you're looking for them.

The downside though is that when adding hard drives to a G4, you don't get the inadvertent blood sacrifice to make sure it works. All my PC cases seem designed to make sure you can't add a hard/cd/tape drive without bleeding on it, which ensures the black magic works.