Black Is The New Beige 406
An anonymous submitter writes: "Spurred by Apple's innovations and the dangers of commoditization, computer makers are finally moving beyond beige. Rather than exploring diverse ideas, however, they have made a decision reminiscent of the fashionistas: black is the new beige (a NYTimes story)."
Apple "invented" the beige Personal Computer... (Score:5, Informative)
Best Cases (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.coolermaster.com
http://www.xpcgear
http://www.monarchcomputer.
Apple had black a LONG time ago (Score:4, Informative)
NY reg (Score:2, Informative)
Re:CD-Rom and drive bay covers . . . (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I remember when... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What about rackmount? (Score:3, Informative)
Go to Musician's Friend [musiciansfriend.com] and search for Racklight. You might also look for rackmount power conditioners - most of the good ones have lights as well.
Re:These guys have color too (Score:2, Informative)
Obligatory case mod story (Score:2, Informative)
We went to the local Home Hardware a few weeks ago and already purchased some water-based (to avoid the chance of melting the plastic bezel because the cases are 300$CDN a piece) gloss black paint, a 2 foot x 4 foot sheet of Lucite, 16 polished 1/4 inch bolts, 16 1/4 inch nuts and 2 paint brushes. This should be enough to do the 2 Antecs as well as the case of my old Linux machine (as a test).
Total cost: 50$ canadian total, so 25$ each (not including the lighting of course). And we should have more then enough Lucite left over to do at least a few more cases. So with a little luck, this might just pay for itself. We intend to do this sometime next month when it's dry enough out for the paint to dry quickly. These wicked cases just got a little more wicked.