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Title: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: Lo on March 28, 2003, 02:12:40 PM

~~~while we are waiting~~~~~~~~~ :angry:

Anyone still planning to go the desktop route as opposed to a tower?  It would save me some desk space
 :-) Links appreciated!  :-)

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: Karlos on March 28, 2003, 02:51:48 PM

Pardon?

How does a desktop unit save space? You stick your tower by the side of your desk and forget about it  :-?

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: Lo on March 28, 2003, 02:58:16 PM

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How does a desktop unit save space? You stick your tower by the side of your desk and forget about it

Ah, you see, my floor is veddy dirty....
 :lol:

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: vortexau on March 28, 2003, 03:13:51 PM

I'd say that its high time that you took up a Vacuum Cleaner to deal with that layer of Volcanic Ash covering your floor? :-)

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: Lo on March 28, 2003, 03:29:38 PM

More like dirt than ash, but we DO have lahala mats on the floor *sniff*
 :-P

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: Darth_X on March 28, 2003, 03:50:28 PM

The Pegasos is a nice small microATX motherboard that fits nicely  in a desktop case.

The A1 being a full ATX motherboard is probably more suited to tower cases... that would be a giant desktop case (I wouldn't have room for it on my desktop). :-D

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: jumpship on March 28, 2003, 05:11:30 PM

@Lo

I want a desktop case when I get my A1. Not to save space (although I will be putting my printer on it!), it is to give it the feel of being an A4000 that I could never afford.

I have always thought of the big-box Amigas as being in a desktop case rather then a tower, even with the A3000T and A4000T.

Try scan.co.uk or dabs.com also ebuyer.com (.co.uk?). They all have desktop, although not in the variaty of towers :-(

JS

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: LaBodilsen on March 28, 2003, 05:21:07 PM

Darth_X wrote on 2003/3/28 16:50:28

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The A1 being a full ATX motherboard is probably more suited to tower cases... that would be a giant desktop case (I wouldn't have room for it on my desktop).

Not at all. i've modified an A4000 desktop case to cary a normal fullsize Atx board.  

although it did require a small SFX PSU, and moving the HD's up to the front of the case.   it's still posible to install a atx mobo :-) (i can't wait to install my A1 in that good old case)

PSU: (its the first picture) http://www.gpfault.org/artman/publish/printer_136.shtml

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: jumpship on March 28, 2003, 05:24:14 PM

@LaBodilsen

Do you have any pictures of you modified A4000? I would love to do something like that myself!

JS

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: Lo on March 28, 2003, 07:16:58 PM

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The A1 being a full ATX motherboard is probably more suited to tower cases... that would be a giant desktop case

Hmm, I guess I'll varnish a small chunk of coconut trunk for a stand :-D

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: iamaboringperson on March 28, 2003, 10:27:38 PM

ill consider a desktop case sometime in the future, but for now i think ill be going for a full tower, probably an aopen one! and probably black!

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: xaccrocheur on March 28, 2003, 11:06:45 PM

I got an an AOpen tower, it's quite good. The PSU used to power 5 drives internally w/o fuss, but wow it's BIG. As high as my desktop. Quite pricey too.

pX

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: iamaboringperson on March 28, 2003, 11:10:38 PM

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Quite pricey too.

Yes! but you get what you pay for! :-D

Title: Re: A1 in a Desktop Case?
Post by: artman on March 29, 2003, 02:51:43 AM

@Jumpship

You're absolutely correct about the Big Box Amiga's.  I've always thought of mine in the same way some people think of their classic cars.  They wouldn't even think of doing anything to them that would destroy the originality of them.  I don't mind doing upgrades and such, but only without damaging the integrity of the original design.  Ok, call me old fashioned. :-D