I know what I want for Christmas.

[athelind]

(Thanks to cargoweasel)
Murrrrrr. Pretty.
Oh, and one of these.

foofers keeps ragging on people for "ricing" their computer housings, but... I'd to have a computer with this kind of Art Deco Sci-Fi design aesthetic. I mean, these thing was made from common household appliances of the 'Deco period. Vacuums. Mixers. Blenders. Why can't our modern, sophisticated electronic brains look so... modern and sophisticated?

It's the future, dammit. It should look like it.

Oh, and here's one for terminotaur.

Comments

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Well, there is, in my mind, a difference between a really cool custom case and "ricing". To me, ricing is just adding windows and cold-cathode neon and LEDs and other random crap for the sake of making a computer that screams "LOOK @ MEEE IM L33T AND J00R COMP IZ NOT LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHA". A really good custom case should have a theme to it and some class. Ricers tend to do cases that have neither. Here are some cool things Mac users have done:

Classic art deco: http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/dlz3/index.html
The extreme techie look: http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/dg1/index.html
Another art deco case: http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/tombstonemac/index.html

Being somewhat of an aesthetic minimalist myself, the ideal case for me would be a monolithesque black slab with a few blue LEDs indicating status and some barely-detectable slots for the drives. Preferably as small as possible- thus if I do build a new x86ish system, I may use a Mini-ITX mainboard to do it and forego the use of expansion cards at all. Mini-ITX mainboards may not be larger than 17cm by 17cm. They're designed primarily for heavy-duty pseudo-embedded applications or for use in kiosks or for video playback, but they can also make a decent basic desktop. Especially if they're running some form of Unix...
I'll take one of those Electrolux death rays though. But only if I can mount it on my car...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Hee. Those first two have long been my favorite case mods of all time.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Mine as well, though I'm not sure I'd have gone for the particular techie case they did. Something more sci-fi looking would be nice. }:>

[araquan.livejournal.com]

For info on Mini-ITX: http://www.mini-itx.com/

[athelind.livejournal.com]

And for more fun mods:
Extreme Makeover.

The "Alien" one is kinda ricey, but the rest are middlin' clever. My personal favorite is the "Shiny Aluminum".

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Interesting- now you see the potential for those Mini-ITX boards. But turning an Amiga into a Windows computer? SACRELIGE!

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeez, I want one of those.... :)

Actually I relly like the Mercury 5000 too. I like a nice sleek look. :)