1 Feb
2007
1 Feb
'07
6:31 a.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
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.
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 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