Arty computers

[Jules Richardson]

Adrian Graham wrote:
> On 1/2/07 01:11, "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> They let you back in again? I'm impressed! :)

Yep. I got a bit of secondary questioning by the immigration guys but nothing 
stressful; the guys at Chicago seem like pretty reasonable people (unlike some 
of the horrors I've heard about at other US airports :-)

>> Re. BeBox, I hesitated about mentioning it from a styling point of view;
>> architecturally it was definitely interesting, and in so far as I've studied
>> ours the build quality seems good, but the case does kind of shout "PC
>> look-a-like" somewhat :-)
> 
> Well yes, casewise, but what about the blinkenlights on the front 

I don't know, I'm not so much of a fan of those as most people seem to be. It 
just seems gimmicky, but not even done in a particularly pleasing way. "stack 
up some LEDs and bodge them into the case" is the sort of thing I would have 
done to a system when I was about 15 :-)

It almost looks like someone in marketing said: "we need some flashing lights 
on the front to attract people, but it has to cost less than a buck to do"... 
I think I'd rather they'd either not bothered, or spent a bit more money on it.

 > and the geekport on the back...

Oh indeed; the hardware's pretty well thought out I think. But the case isn't 
*that* special, other than being a nicer colour than most "I'm trying to look 
like a PC" machines of that era (it's way better than Phoebe's "puke yellow", 
for instance ;)

cheers

Jules