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sent us linkage to a place selling translucent PC cases
for those of you who are seeking something different, or are
jealous of the iMac. These actually look pretty excellent.
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I happen to be a fan of the design roads that Apple is taking, in regards to the translucency of their computers. However, every other company, whether they are making USB mice or knock-off cases as this, are just making something that was ugly in beige even uglier in pale color.
The reason the iMac and the G3 look good is because they were designed with the idea in mind that you would be seeing some of the internals, while these fools are just slapping cheap plastic on existing designs.
What's so attractive about seeing the green print board of a mouse, even if it's through a blue tinted cover?
Apple did this out of originality, and as usual, are being copied poorly.
These ugly cases are a pathetic attempt at mimicing the iMac. Even the names of half the colors are the same! Butt he colors are not enough, because the cases are still boxy. They have the same square edges that all PC's do, instead of smooth, flowing curves that hallmark the Mac.
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These cases look like dull rip-offs of the Apple
iMac & G3 cases. I don't even much like the looks
of the new Apple cases (and they're hardly all
_that_ original looking - they look like they
came straight out of an Anime movie). The great
design that is present in the new G3 box is how
dead-simple it is to open them up and work on
them - THAT is truly innovative. And it's quite
obvious that they did _no_ usability testing on
that new hockey puck they call a mouse. And the
keyboard feels pretty flimsy, too.
All in all, I'd rather have the same easy-to-
work-on case, but in flat black.
And why doesn't anyone make a really _nice_
black monitor (or mouse)?! Good black keyboards
can be found, and there are some okay black
cases, but good black monitors seems to be
completely non-existent!
I can't help but think the first manufacturers
who start making _good_ black equipment are
gonna make a killing...
Wow, remember when see-through plastic telephones were THE coolest thing on the planet?
Now what *I'm* waitng for are the Transformers, Thundercats, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cases.
I think they're unattractive. But it's not for me to say what people might enjoy. I simply have some minor criticisms:
They look cheap. Really cheap. Like bargain basement $29 at the corner-OEM-shop cheap. Maybe it's the dirt-poor quality of the images (or the site in general), but I get a general sense of flimsiness from looking at them. Then again, I get the same feeling from iMacs and iLoaf boxes.
Bad marketing. People who care about their case are going to go out and drop the $200 for a SuperMicro 750 and a few cans of Krylon. Everyone else will pretty much take whatever is on the shelf at Sears. VARs are going to stay away from these things in droves.
Poor I.D. What is with that swoopy neckline bit? Why does it look like something clipped on to an existing plain sheetmetal case? It seems like in ripping off the iLoaf and the iMac, these guys have snapped up only the things that are annoying about its design (with the exception of those funky crate-handles... good god, what was Apple thinking when they said, "Hey, let's put 4 spoilers on it! That'll make people think it's fast!")
Color selection. What's it going to take to get a *good* case in black? It seems like black hardware is always of the extremely flimsy variety.
And as a general aside to all of the folks ranting about the genius of the Apple iLoaf case: "Go look at a SM 750."
if they are going to copy apple, then they should copy the way the case opens. the apple cases are the first intelligent case design i have ever seen. all this ingenuity designing sophisticated hardware and no one until apple could design a stinking case. i dont care what the damn thing looks like just give me a case that i can install memory in without cutting my hands or taking the @#$%^&@ MB out! anyone else feel this way?! who cares about color. i would buy a freakin' pink case if it opened like an apple case!