What's the real reason why they stopped making beige cases?
I think it's because it's easier to get away with cheap plastics and thin metal when they're black. Back in the day decent beige ATX cases would weigh over 10kg (20 pounds), made of stainless steel and tough as fuck plastic
What's the real reason why they stopped making beige cases?
Matthew Sanchez
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Cameron Hernandez
dirtiness i'd assume. your theory sounds good too though.
Blake Russell
because they age like shit
Christopher Bailey
Just apply some retr0bright
Aaron Hill
Dark themes became a thing and more common at that
Ultimately the market demanded dark cases because of this
Think of the beige case as light theme and the black case as dark themes
Christian Hill
cheap dyed plastic actually improved in quality, thanks chinese slaverlords
Jackson Rodriguez
Literally rose tinted
Logan Johnson
yeah just retrobright it nothing bad can happen and you will be cool again
Matthew Evans
pic related
Leo Walker
There were plenty of shitty brittle/bendable beige cases and plenty of sturdy dark-colored cases back then, too. Not every change you dislike is some kind of malicious industry-wide conspiracy to con you out of some paltry sum of money.
Tastes simply changed. Beige was purposefully chosen because it was safe and boring and blended well with the safe and boring offices those systems were destined for, and when more mainstream vendors started challenging those ideas in the late '90s everyone else eventually followed suit and we settled on... a new safe and boring color that matched the safe and boring aesthetics of our safe and boring offices just like the old safe and boring beige cases did when that became standard in the '70s and '80s.
Besides, your theory doesn't really hold up against reality considering a number of transitional systems from big-name OEMs were pretty much just the same "sturdy" beige cases painted black.
David Davis
>you can find cases in literally any colour
>except this beige
Yeah, not suspicious at all.
Josiah Harris
>What's the real reason why they stopped making beige cases?
Very simple - beige and white plastic burns out on light and becomes dirty-gray or piss-dirt yellow with time. Go look up "yellow SNES and Dreamcast plastic" for example.
Alexander Hill
It doesn't burn out. It simply sweats bromide-based flame retardant. You can easily make it bright again.
Nathan Scott
yeah man the kikes are obviously conspiring against you and your desires for a nostalgia trip
Eli Stewart
It's only nostalgic because they're not produced anymore. If they still were, it would just be a normal, good looking beige case.
Jayden Turner
they're not made anymore because most people just aren't interested in beige anymore, especially the core audience for whitebox systems in 2018 which is basically just gamer toddlers and old people who still frequent local mom and pop computer stores
Angel Ramirez
these, now consider a smokers office
nobody got time
Evan Brooks
Huh...
Jaxson Morgan
retr0bright
Isaac Martinez
>It doesn't burn out
Oliver Lopez
Just buy fucking oxiclean in a 7-11, for fuck's sake.
Isaiah James
I want to build an old pc from scraps and maintaint it, just for shits and giggles and it seems like a fun pointless sideproject.
Owen King
Why not use the same plastic they used for the ports and slot for the whole thing?
Michael Evans
It's same, it's just that it burns out unevenly usually. Dreamcast actually burns out way more evenly (the infamous case with Yukawa Box).
William Cox
This is from UV radiation and occurs with black plastic too which becomes a yucky brown.
Landon Gomez
in a what
Xavier Bennett