Couple of weird new cases

Shadowknight · Post by **Shadowknight** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:12 pm

Cardboard case
http://www.lupo.co.jp/develop/ccpc/ccpcbox_index.html

Foldable case by Aopen
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php? ... t=foldable

RAFH · Post by **RAFH** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:28 pm

Saw the first one some years ago. Interesting but I don't see much advantage except maybe cost, never been able to get a figure on that. But then I spend a lot on components and one of the primary purposes of a case is to protect what's inside. Somehow cardboard doesn't impress me on that account. Nor do the looks.

The folding case is interesting but what's the point? How does it folding do me any good? Maybe cost savings for shipping.

Ho Hum, but thanks for the post, I'd much rather have an occasional unimpressive post than potentially miss something whammy-zhammy!

Chocolinx · Post by **Chocolinx** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:31 pm

Those Lupo cases aren't cheap at all. At least at the time when I saw them, they were near the $100 mark.

kentc · Post by **kentc** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:12 pm

designed in sweden by semcon, it's a case made of ceramics

http://www.kapsel.com/

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:27 pm

kentc wrote:designed in sweden by semcon, it's a case made of ceramics

http://www.kapsel.com/

Damn, those look cool; I bet they will be hideously expensive though.

RAFH · Post by **RAFH** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:25 pm

Yeah, very nice. Could be quite effective in cooling as well or the opposite, ceramics are strange materials.

Costs could be quite low once they get the forms made. And the labor involved is pretty low intellect. Rote behavior.

Gojira-X · Post by **Gojira-X** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:15 pm

It seems like all AOpen did was take out all the rivets and made the case a bit more user-friendly to assemble.
My Mums mercury KOB-85 seems to be assembled in a similar way (but with rievets)

I do wish Thermaltake did that with the Xaswr 5 Wingo, it would have made it easier to assemble without the trial and error of removing bits.

Reachable · Post by **Reachable** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:29 pm

Cardboard would cut down on the weight, one would think. But it would not provide any electromagnetic shielding.

Ceramic case might also provide no shielding, but maybe since there looks to be much finesse behind the Kapsel case, perhaps they embedded a thin metallic layer somewhere.

Just playfully speculating......

EsaT · Post by **EsaT** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:06 am

Shadowknight wrote:Foldable case by Aopen
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php? ... t=foldable

Now if they would just start making components which can be folded to smaller space...

Couple of weird new cases

Couple of weird new cases

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