Now this is a desktop computer. It seems like a pretty obvious idea, and nothing occurs to me off the top of my head that would make it impractical. A custom motherboard with rotated PCI slots, a few extender cables, and you’ve got a really great setup. There’s plenty of room for vents and heatsinks, a natural place for drives, ports, and so on — really, why aren’t these things all over the place?
It’s not under the “concept” category there (although it looks like a CG render), but good luck getting one in real life.
The first time you have to move Mike in Finance down to Sales, you’ll see.
I don’t see why I couldn’t make a table like this myself. If I could get my hands on a table, and find a computer to dissamble, then I’d just flip the table, add on an area to store the computer components. It’d be totally flipping awesome! Now I want to try it…
and when the puter turns to crap in a couple years… as we all know they do… now you have a deskputer with no puter. then the excellent irony of having to buy a replacement puter that would sit on top of your dead deskputer.
It’s big enough that you wouldn’t have to make it into a laptop form factor (like the iMac), so there’s no reason why it couldn’t be upgradeable. Of course, “upgrade” for a lot of companies is synonymous with “new computer”, so the only way this would work is to have a rack-mount computer that slides into the side.
Maybe one day we’ll live in the world of Star Trek, with a computer embedded into everything.
“a rack-mount computer that slides into the side”
:O
time to get to work!
Yeah good luck with that the first time you boss comes into bitch at you and spills his decaf all over it – or Randy and Tina are working late and decide to get frisky on it. Computers should be small and out of the way not made huge and non-functional like this.