Open air PCs aren’t a brand new phenomenon, however this product from Japanese producer Nagao Seisakusho (opens in new tab) (first noticed by our colleagues at Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab)) does one thing fairly distinctive: it presents a monitor mount for Nagao Seisakusho’s pre-existing open air PC instances, permitting you to construct an all-in-one rig within the fashion.
It actually seems hanging, and would make fairly the assertion piece at a LAN occasion, however there’s the rub for me with this design: transport. Nagao Seisakusho’s straightforward carry deal with on its N-Body instances helps with selecting up and dealing with your rig, however what if this factor acquired jostled round in your automobile and tipped over? Graphics playing cards might lastly be plentiful once more (opens in new tab), however I nonetheless don’t desire mine to satisfy an early dying.
I am additionally a bit skeptical of the monitor mount’s aesthetic worth in most conditions. I do not learn about you, however I’ve my desk shoved proper into the wall in my workplace. With my kind of setup, which I’ve to think about is fairly frequent, these shiny RGB elements you are presumably attempting to indicate off with the open case would get sandwiched between your monitor and your wall.
To not point out, Nagao Seisakusho’s fashion of case usually boasts a bonus relating to element measurement and compatibility—arduous for a bigass GPU to not match if there isn’t any tempered glass or metallic brackets to squeeze it previous—however any comfort you choose up there’s successfully negated by having to contemplate your monitor’s measurement and weight in your construct now.
However what are my nebbish and nerdy complaints within the face of one thing fairly neat that we have not precisely seen earlier than? The shape issue jogs my memory of these tiny flip-up TVs (opens in new tab) you might connect to a PS1 and that nobody you knew appeared to have and even know the right way to purchase.
Similar to attempting to construct a smooth small kind issue PC, the realities of constructing and utilizing such a rig could also be slightly arduous to swallow, however you’ll be able to at all times benefit from the aesthetic triumph of a pleasant, bizarre PC. The monitor mount itself is slated for launch on July 7 in line with @momomo_us on Twitter (opens in new tab), and Nagao Seisakusho’s open air instances can be found for buy on Amazon Japan (opens in new tab).
