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We’ve gone from classy Beige to tacky RGB when it comes to PC cases. What a shame.

It's getting worse and worse, too. Ten years ago there was an enormous variety of PC cases with almost every imaginable design philosophy. These days it's basically either a black plastic box or a clear glass box. Mini-fridge or aquarium, that's it.

Even the classically tasteful manufacturers like Lian-Li, Silverstone and In Win are mostly offering ricey garbage now.

Its very frustrating.

Fractal Design still makes nice and unexciting cases.

I have a Fractal case and do like the look of it, I just wish there were more companies selling premium larger cases because I dislike some of the plastic parts.

If the thing is going to have to sit in my office/bedroom I don't mind paying up to $1K for something nice looking, grown up and with premium metal finish.

Premium case market is entirely very small cases like the Louqe Ghost.

Although there are some exceptions: https://fabiensanglard.net/the_beautiful_machine/index.html

Classy? There’s a joke that if you don’t know what to get someone for Christmas you’ll buy them beige bath towels. Beige, is well, beige. It’s the least interesting of all colours.

I always thought that computers were beige because that's what the white plastic turns into after 20 years of use. :-)

I was told beige was common because it hides dust the best.

If you get an old office computer that was used around 1980, you’ll probably find it yellowed or even browned with nicotine stains. Dust wasn’t the only thing in the air in an office back then.

In the 80’s I worked at a company that sold CAD workstations. We had one customer that smoked in his small office. Whenever we went there for maintenance, I would bring some cleaning wipes and transform his medium brown computer to something closer to light gray. Yuck!

I recently built a new computer and i couldn't believe how difficult it was to find a beige case. I ended up finding a beautiful NOS server case from 2000.

now if only I could find a monitor that wasn't black.

Beige became the norm in the office because it was innocuous and boring. There's nothing classy about it.

I fucking love Beige. It’s super classy.

These things are subjective, you know ;-)

It took me ages to find a wired USB mouse that didn't light up like a damn Christmas tree. I think there are about three such models on the market.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-800dpi-Optical-3-button-Ambi...

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-3-Button-Wired-Computer-...

Second and third results for "wired usb mouse" on amazon. The 1st is an ad. I have to go down to the 9th result to see a mouse that actually lights up.

I don't think beige is classy either

Now the white of the Amiga 600, that's classy

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