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bit_user The article said: PC cases today largely focus on subdued, minimal designs in order to appeal to as many people as possible. Compare that to the towers you could find back in the old days, and you'd think no one in these corporate boardrooms has any personality. I'm not directly engaging with this claim, but I'd like to point out that early-2000's was peak "LAN party" era. I think that influenced many case designs and pushed the aesthetic more towards the attention-grabbing end of the spectrum. Here's a better version of the picture: I think think such a PSU housing makes aesthetic sense in cases with bottom-mounted PSUs, but I think such case configurations were only starting to come onto the scene around that time. The case reminds me of my office PC from back then, which was a generic beige/milky white color and lacked the LCD + knobs. Since I frequently accessed the optical drive, I simply removed the door covering the drive bays. That's the main asethetic flaw I see with such cases. If the case has a door, it should try to look good both with the door open/off, not just with it closed. Reply
ejolson . . . today we see an increasing interest in retro products with people chasing nostalgia deliberately. That's because new stuff is no longer fun. It costs too much. Reply
bit_user ejolson said: . . . today we see an increasing interest in retro products with people chasing nostalgia deliberately. That's because new stuff is no longer fun. It costs too much. Yeah, but also just looking at nostalgia trends in pop culture, fashion, etc. there's something real at work there. It can be a coping mechanism for dealing with negative emotions, which might include stress over the pace of change in technology and the job market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia#Improving_mood That's not to say that nostalgia is only about coping, but I think it's been demonstrated that waves of nostalgia tend to coincide with economic downturns and other negative events. Reply
vinay2070 bit_user said: which might include stress over the pace of change in technology and the job market. Agree. Stress, fast change in technology, AI affecting job market (biggest hit) – bringing in uncertainity, Housing prices, increased inflation and population(People are everywhere and competition is cut throat). Not to forget the bad influence of social media on how people should be. Many people are losing it. This is why most love that 80s and 90s time line. There was a good balance of everything. Reply
MisterZ Such a good CPU that Pentium 4. I bought a P4 2.4B back in 2002 and it was one of the quietest PCs I've ever owned. Reply
bit_user MisterZ said: Such a good CPU that Pentium 4. I bought a P4 2.4B back in 2002 and it was one of the quietest PCs I've ever owned. Well, Northwood was pretty good. They even made versions with hyperthreading and a 800 MHz front-side bus. I wish I'd gotten one of those, instead of Prescott, but at least I knew Prescott was fairly controversial and it worked well enough for most of my needs. Where my P4 really reached its limits was playing back h.264 at 1080p. 720p was fine, but whether it could keep up at 1080p varied on a case-by-case basis. GPU-accelerated decoding wasn't a great alternative, as it was pretty rough, back in those days. Reply
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