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3XS Isotope - 11 Sided Gamer's Computer
Kez writes "For those who want to show off, then a undecagonal-faced prism case might be worth consideration. Scan's 3XS Isotope is certainly a very unusual system. It takes micro-ATX motherboards, so you can still use high end hardware in it. Perhaps the perfect LAN party system? HEXUS.net has a review, pointing out that this is the sort of system you will either love or hate."
my six year old would think this was pretty cool, but I certainly wouldn't want this beast in the living area. What's next, a one sided computer? "Why carry your computer to a LAN party when you can roll it there."
We might as well talk about Family Guy, because the picture is missing from the linked page. There is, however, a huge gray area. Perhaps part of the page got slashdotted.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Well... I guess it's something different... after all, it's not a number of sides you see used every day!
Must give it that extra "Oooh... shiny" factor.
Just another harmless drunk
But it turns out that this is just a specially-shaped case.
I'm waiting for hypercube-shaped cases.
One that hath name thou can not otter
Still waiting for an unseptacircular hexagasm
With the price you'd pay for that thing, why not get a decent gaming laptop? That's what me and most of my friends use for lans now.. have the 802.11 ready, a good mouse... it's fun
Plus for the hardcore, "I ate pizza all night", bathroom breaks.. you can take the game with you D:
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
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I can't wait to have a computer so small that I have to use a pin to press the power button! Seriously though, I'm all for this, but only in some cases. Do we need to make stuff so much smaller? It makes it more inaccessible to most self-builders. I would like this for an HTPC though, because I want enough power to convert media, but I also want to make sure it doesn't look like I stuck a small PC in my room, rather it should look like my VCR grew up a tad.
If your goal is to kick your competitors computers to see how far they roll.
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Not to be picky (OK I'm being picky) but it's not 11-sided. The front and back are also "sides" making this a 13-sided case.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
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"unusual" cases for unusual people.
Looks like the submitter has an email address at hexus. Free PR!
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Just make sure your LAN party is local, don't think airport security would take too kindly to this ;)
Is rip out that foxconn board and put something that has a few more TEETH into it.
The second thing would be to try to clean up that wiring mess they got in there! Ich!
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
The summary has it right.
It said undecagonal prism. The article, however, says "(the shape's called a undecahedron, in case you were wondering)" That is wrong.
Polygon = 2D. Undecagon is an 11-sided two-dimensional geometric object. Three-dimensional object enclosed by generalized cylinder and two congruent polygon is called a prism. So Undecagonal prism is the accurate description of the case.
Polyhedron = 3D. Undecahedron is an 11-sided three-dimensional object. This has 13 sides. (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polyhedron.html) mathworld lists no name canonical name for 13 sided polyhedron.
But your point was that the computer's case as a polyhedron has 13 sides not 11. You are also right.
Um...I thought the whole 'allure' of stupi...er, I mean, custom looking cases was that they're unique and YOU built it. You know, instead of having that dull grey case that everyone else has, you have a case with neon and cutouts and 50 fans. Just like everyone else, but at least YOU botched the installation and didn't get it quite square and so on, so it's still...uh...unique.
So how is this supposed to be alluring? Next year, everyone's going to have one of these things.
Sorry, I forgot to put in [click to read more] after every sentence...
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For those who want to show off...
how unbelievably geeky they are
Ludwig Wittgenstein
when did knowing what an isotope is, when did that become cool?? i got my ass kicked for being a nerd, now the stuff i liked is cool. in college, i learned to drink to make people like me, to fight to make people respect me. it almost is enought to make me want to blow shit up. why did my h.s. existance suck? i wish i knew what i now know then so i could have struck back. *crying*
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Wait, that doesn't make sense...
I Propose a new categoryu for Slashdot stories:
/. should be marked as such, and then subscribers (of which I am not, for this reason among others) would have the option of easily skipping it.
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Anything, such as this, that is nothing more than a free (?) advertisement posted to the front page of
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As others have pointed out, the case is actually 13-sided, not 11, as the front and back count as sides. This makes it an irregular tridecahedron (which doesn't tell you a whole lot about the shape, other that the number of sides), or more specifically an undecagonal right cylinder.
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Does this look like a prop from the movie "Silent Running"? More importantly, am I the only one who remembers that movie?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Undecagonal-faced prism cases are just another chapter of the quest to show your individuality by purchasing a mass-produced product. This can be done better ...
I used to program for Coleco, the company that made the Cabbage Patch Kids mass-market edition.The main appeal of CPK was that every kid could have something individualized that was the same thing as everyone else!
Instead of messing around with funny-faced PC cases, someone should market cases gauranteed to be unique, if only by the pattern of the eye decal or imprinted freckles. Surely this would prove that the buyer is a real hoopy frood who knows where his towel is!
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... As this silly design was already covered more than a week ago at a more appropriate site for hardware fanboyism and unpaid product advertisement.
Welcome to 3 days ago.
I understand the desire to have a custom modded computer, something that someone would build themselves to make it unique, and I also understand the desire for a computer that is more asthetically pleasing than most standard towers, but I've never really understood the desire to buy gaming rigs like this.
When you buy a machine like this, it automatically takes away the first reason, personalization, to own a non-standard machine like this, and most of them are dead ugly.
Plus, the extra charge for these machines tends to be really high compared to a machine of equal specs in a standard case.
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Just me, but I think that that's probably the most hideous box I have EVER seen. Beige anyone?
I am Spartacus
How do people develop such a warped sense of aesthetics that they like this sort of thing? The entire case mod "scene" has got to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. It's kind of like when you see a car painted yellow, green and purple. I'm not claiming I have impeccable taste, but I know ridiculous when I see it.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Now if they had the case by itself for a reasonable price, I'd buy one (Not more than $200)
And why do they need special cases?
It's just a right, nonagonal prism!
OK, I guess it might qualify as an undecahedron...
See AQFL. There are three parts to Hypercube^2.
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It looks like something I'd need to pick up while I'm in the game!!
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please disregard the l0zer.
hey asshole
if you're going to leak intellectual property,
DO IT IN A FORMAT THAT DOESN'T SUCK ASS.
11 Sided Gamer's Computer
Hrmm, I don't know many 11 sided gamers. Most of us used to use 12 sided dice, until everyone started moving to D20.
I didn't leak it you idiot.
I didn't leak it you idiot.
Then why did you reply? What a dumbass!
Is that the most un-holy, ugly-ass power button ever? Or just me... Other posts have pretty much covered this, but in these days of slick ipods, and anti-beige-box design, what are they thinking?
Ok .... I've just woken up, and I'm cranky.... and I'm browsing /. at -1. So all in all I accept I'm not being too smart here.
But.
Stop being such a dickhead.
Believe it or not, most people on Slashdot are already aware that the Mac Mini exists. And you know what? If there were just a few less total asshats acting as proponents for the Mac, a few more people might just buy them.
And I say that as a staunch user of OS X for 5 years. I'm typing this on a Mac Mini at the moment. I love it. But for the love of God.... Please.... Mac Zealots: please only post about our platform when you've actually got something interesting, insightful or informative to say about it.
Mathworld says hendecagon is to be preferred over undecagon, as it is formed of Greek roots rather than a mix of Latin and Greek.
G-Gnome's Weapon of Mass Destruction anyone?
Another bloody advert !
Isn't it enough to have those damn annoying OSDN ads without bloody adverts for utter shite cases?
... have WAN parties! All of your freinds get together and attempt to play games as far apart as possible!
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"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
The funniest part of TFA in my opinion, was the part about the red strobe light obstructing the PSU fan and "that it might be a good idea to add an extra 80mm fan to push air over the cpu and into the psu" to compensate for that.
/another/ fan into that case will turn it into a veritable hoover - there are a couple of fans in there already that turn at 6000 rpm (the chipset fan and the graphics card fan I believe). What's more fan noise between friends?
Who needs a red strobe light inside the case anyway!
Besides, adding
It's at times like this I really appeciate the near-silence afforded me by my 15" Powerbook and my Dual 2Ghz G5.
It looks extremely cool which may be enough for some people. But for me it has a fatal flaw, which is that has you can see in one of the pictures, you are going to gradually get the creeps looking at it until you are so paranoid it will roll off onto the floor that you end up pseudo-nonchalantly placing things next to it so it can't roll away. It needs a semi-undecahedronal cradle and a big "this side up" arrow on the front. When you put it down somewhere you are going to spend twenty seconds parsing its dvd drive and connectors' attitude to be sure you are not setting it down on the wrong face or, god forbid, upside down (which I guess would bake it or are those open vents on the sides?). Also in an earthquake prone place like Japan (or California, one day maybe), if there is ever even a minor quake and you are out of the house, you are going to wonder if it hasn't rolled off the table due to tremors. Unless you use bookends or maybe a hook. How about suspending it like a hammock? Then you could make it into flexible segments and make it move with neat looking gel through its interstices by convection. Personally I think they should rotate this design through the 4th dimension a little bit so the case has foot-like projections that will make it absolutely clear that 1) it is not going to roll anywhere, and 2) that however it is entirely likely that the machine may be rotated along an entirely different axis so Stand Back!
OK, points for cleverness but utility?
1) ever go to a LAN party where there was a surplus of table space? "Hi guys, check out my new bitchin' computer that's going to take up 3x the space of all of yours!"
2) (subsequent to above): I know, let's design a computer that is easier to tip/kick over!
This reminds me of the 100-sided dice. Neat idea, clever design, but for the 90% of the time when you're not rolling on a mathematically-perfect flat & level surface, IT NEVER STOPPED ROLLING BECAUSE IT WAS NEARLY A SPHERE.
-Styopa
Although the case does look interesting. Scan's Customer
service is appalling. Apparently when they say next day delivery they mean it will arrive the day after they can be bothered to go fetch it from the warehouse - not the day after you order. In my case i waited over two weeks. They also substituted an inferior product for the one i order without informing me. Unlike their sales line which is answered in two rings, they hardly ever seem to answer their customer service line and when they do they are rude and obnoxious. Without question the worst company i have ever dealt with. I know this is a bit of rant but if people have had a different experience then please comment.