i love the way macs look, but what i would love even more is customisable design.

some time ago one of major Nokia phones had replaceable front panels, and there were a ton of front panel designs available. If it was possible to change the look of my laptop as easily as i change my desktop background, i would be one happy geek

I think its important not to try and re-invent the wheel.

There are plenty of existing bits out there that are quite suitable and we should use those where we can (cases, PSU etc). Given that fact then it will be important that we do adopt some "standards" - specifically that any mobo etc should perhaps stick to current dimensions. That way we don't have to design a case for an odd sized piece of hardware.

So - if thats accepted then what from the current range do we NOT have to redesign. Lets get that out of the way first and then see whats left.

Just my 2cents worth YMMV

Simple and well build goes without saying.
If something is build very well it generally looks great too.

Dale.

why not design a case in two parts (or more) that you can go out and buy a new top half or bottom half for. Could get some interesting and funky designs.. The ability to change things to your own tastes is a huge selling point.

a show of idea I made this back before the 360came out, and IMHO I think they should have made the xbox 360 look like that. Anyway, if the top and bottom half could be seperated you could get blue ones, black ones something that looks square, triangle. Whatever your heart desired really.

If the case has a standard size then cover changes would be easy...

I'm sure we can make a special Yellow one for you!
DALe.

ElPres

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In the end the case may be very similar if not the same as what we have on the market already.

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Why?

I mean, we are looking for a differentiator, or what? What can be a most powerfull differentiator in the eyes of normal people than a funny shape?

Like an american football's shape (I don't think that a soccer ball would be practicable)? Or some form of hexahedral? Or like a bottle shape?

We could put a bunch the motherboard in the midle of all these funny shapes. Then, we could let the electrical part go bellow the motherboard, annd the rest of the devices above (or viceversa).

We could make the boxes in different colors (yellow. blue, pink, white, black, transparent, etc).

We pull these off, and peple will no longer buy from us just because of freedom, but because of the "coolness" factor.

Say we use the bottle shape, we culd then let the parallel DB-25 or USB ports go in the front of the base.

This would be patentable, but someebody could simply chang the shape a tiny bit and it will no longer be protected, so it would not be convenient for us to patent it now.

Or do you think that there is no room for innvation in case design? What about the original iMac?

I haave far weirder ideas, but they are too far fetched to start with.

Custom, as with vehicles.
There would be some basic economy styles such as in 2008
you sell the red one, the black one, the white one, the gray one...
And some SUVish or Sportish shape style as well...
And some real or dummy models on the shelf...
And the Point Of Sale machine has a CAD/CNC on it's net, so you can "pimp it up".

The electronics would be modular just like PC's,
and could be bought separately for those who want to either make their own style
or embed the whole system in a unique such as industrial equipment environment.

I say we have different "models",except instead of the "models" being like most OEMs,they would have "themes" such as:
Enviromentally Friendly
Low Power Consumption

We let consumers choose from a variety of cases,or the consumer can ship us their case if they prefer (for an additional fee).
It is really about giving consumers choices,that's important.

Glowing keyboard should be optional, unless you can turn off the lights.

I had an idea once where you could turn off everything not required to do a certain task.
Say you leave your computer on overnight and you have a glowing mouse and keyboard, you would need a program or something to turn off the lights. What about the VGA card, can you turn that off so there is less power used? or the sound card? Is it possible to turn off devices and turn them back on when you need them?

ElPres

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Glowing keyboard should be optional, unless you can turn off the lights.

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Of course you can turn them off. We could even arrange for a keyboard lights key.

ElPres

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What about the VGA card, can you turn that off so there is less power used? or the sound card? Is it possible to turn off devices and turn them back on when you need them?

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Well yes, it is posible.

Energy Star monitors and video cards are an example. So are hard disks, and I beleive in notebooks you can even turn the processor off if you won't need it for a while.

I was refering to the Distro as a joke,but I still want to have floppy drives as a option.
Sometimes I need to repair an old computer that dosen't always have a DVD/CD drive.

I was a fan of the Amiga, how about if it's wireless... Like, completely. That'd be nifty.