A1-lite looks old, ugly etc..
Hey, so do you :-P
Seriously, who buys a motherboard because it looks pretty?!? that has to be the lamest reason to like/dislike a piece of hardware that's going to sit inside a box all of its operational life. If you're the uber-geek who likes running hardware bare-nekkid, you're probably more worried about cache sizes and transfer rates than the shade of green they use for the circuit boards...