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On Sun, 03 May 1998 07:48:25 GMT, "Jon Davis"
<nbcomm@REMOVEME.bigfoot.com> wrote:

>A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
>Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
>mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
>sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
>boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
>dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
>want this in my living room!

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In ba.market.computer Jon Davis <nbcomm@REMOVEME.bigfoot.com> wrote:
: A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
: Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
: mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
: sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
: boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
: dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
: want this in my living room!

: Does anyone know of this or any other case manufacturer that does this?  I'm
: desperate, I've spent hours--entire nights, even--trying to find it,
: but have come up short!!

Acer makes a line of computers that look very space-age, like big
vitamin pills.  I had one for a while and it was not bad (but the
matching keyboard and mouse were junky and needed to be replaced).
They came in 'charcoal' and 'emerald' and maybe more colors now.
If you don't need the very latest thing, Acer has a company store
in San Jose with refurbs and returns that are very reasonable. I
couldn't tell you where, but they advertise in Micro-Times or
Computer Currents.

In ba.market.computers Jon Davis <nbcomm@REMOVEME.bigfoot.com> wrote:
: A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
: Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
: mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
: sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
: boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
: dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
: want this in my living room!

Shape is tricky to hack, but a can of spray-paint goes a long way towards the 
color side. I've done several black ones -- the textured "barbeque" paint 
works well for this -- and you can get cool textured trendy color mixes from 
your local hardware place... Krylon or somebody had some pastels, very 
Southwestern patterns, you can spray on.

To do it right ya gotta take all the faceplates out (or off, CD's and floppies 
for instance, not losing little springs and screws!) and do it all a piece at 
a time, but a weekend day with a lot of breaks would do it.

-- A





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Jon Davis wrote in message ...
>A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
>Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
>mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
>sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
>boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
>dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
>want this in my living room!
-snip-

You know, there's this wonderful invention out now called "spray paint"...

Better yet: take your outer shell on, say, a minitower to a local airbrush
artist and tell him to have a blast with it.

Jim March

No, I know what you mean.
About two years back a designer was selling luxury cases...
one in bright red, can't remember the other color.
The cases were humped and somewhat conch-shell
inspired.  The fronts of all the drive bays were out-of-plane
with each other... i.e., as the case arched over hump-wards,
they recessed further and further towards the back of the
box.
They were featured in I.D. magazine.   If nothing else I guess
you could mail I.D....

And in general: why hasn't anyone else attemped this?
Designer cases seem easy to build (well, compared to
fabbing a new chipset) and seem like they'd sell well
in the luxury market.

Hm.

--Sam


Jon Davis wrote:

> A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
> Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
> mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
> sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
> boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
> dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
> want this in my living room!
>
> Does anyone know of this or any other case manufacturer that does this?  I'm
> desperate, I've spent hours--entire nights, even--trying to find it,
> but have come up short!!
>
> Thanks,
> Jon Davis

But even spray paint won't work on a perfectly square box.  I want something
shaped artistically, too... giving a square box a paint job isn't my idea of
beauty... I imagine it would just look like somebody took an ugly beige box
and spray-painted it.  Yuck.

Jon Davis

jmarch wrote in message <6iku5o$fjn$2@supernews.com>...
>Jon Davis wrote in message ...
>>A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
>>Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
>>mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
>>sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
>>boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
>>dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
>>want this in my living room!
>-snip-
>
>You know, there's this wonderful invention out now called "spray paint"...
>
>Better yet: take your outer shell on, say, a minitower to a local airbrush
>artist and tell him to have a blast with it.
>
>Jim March
>
>

In article <bg551.542$4i3.5074845@news.rdc1.sfba.home.com>, 
nbcomm@REMOVEME.bigfoot.com says...
> But even spray paint won't work on a perfectly square box.  I want something
> shaped artistically, too... giving a square box a paint job isn't my idea of
> beauty... I imagine it would just look like somebody took an ugly beige box
> and spray-painted it.  Yuck.

Hmmm... you could do some metal working, or used fiberglass to create the 
case. 

Tony

Ever thought of covering the box in clear strong plastic.  Neaten up the inside
and it looks great...

Jared

Jon Davis wrote:

> But even spray paint won't work on a perfectly square box.  I want something
> shaped artistically, too... giving a square box a paint job isn't my idea of
> beauty... I imagine it would just look like somebody took an ugly beige box
> and spray-painted it.  Yuck.
>
> Jon Davis
>
> jmarch wrote in message <6iku5o$fjn$2@supernews.com>...
> >Jon Davis wrote in message ...
> >>A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
> >>Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
> >>mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
> >>sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
> >>boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
> >>dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
> >>want this in my living room!
> >-snip-
> >
> >You know, there's this wonderful invention out now called "spray paint"...
> >
> >Better yet: take your outer shell on, say, a minitower to a local airbrush
> >artist and tell him to have a blast with it.
> >
> >Jim March
> >
> >