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did you ever pine for the good old days when computers had character I mean these days we've got flashy RGB and tempered glass but is it not all the same standardized parts and standardized operating systems running off a standardized box maybe maybe it isn't Mack Walden makes great underwear t-shirts socks wallets and more they believe in simple shopping and if you use code tech tips you'll even get less expensive shopping with 20% off you'll find the link below for those of you who don't recognize it this is actually a one-to-one design copy of the original Apple to this Steve Wozniak designed machine that was ubiquitous in the United States in the 80s and 90s to give you a bit of context for how important this computer was the Apple 2 was produced for over 17 years starting in 1977 meaning that this may well have been the first computer for a literal entire generation of students during that time so the successful funding of Jaffe Wang's IndieGoGo campaign to revive it as a modern fully TX computer case shouldn't raise too many eyebrows but is this thing any good well why don't we take a quick tour of it our unit is a prototype made primarily from 3d printed resin but it has all of the features that are going to go into the final design the most prominent of which being an integrated 68 key poker cherry MX blue keyboard which looks satisfyingly authentic but I do have to ask was anybody really asking for the elevated keyboard design to make a comeback here fortunately you don't have to use it just do that so let's move on then we've got a power button and they actually somewhat difficult to reach front USB 3 and headset jack set on the lower right here and then just like on the original on the top we've got this removable panel giving us a look there we go under the literal hood of the chassis itself so in here we find 6 60 millimeter fans for exhaust along this side and this side and then we've got two 120 millimeter fans over here as intake which I would think should be more than adequate getting it open right up here hardware compatibility is a bit of a mixed bag though so we've got full ATX support for our motherboard here you can you can see that here the length is right but we're confined to small form-factor territory for expansion so that means a single dual slot opening on the rear for our DP u and then just two two and a half inch drive mounts which on this revision of the design are mounted right here directly under the keyboard cooler clearance is another consideration for this case it's got 82 millimeters of total clearance and yet another thing to keep in mind it supports only SFX not sfx l power supplies meaning that the best that we can cram in there is of course our SF 600 or a silverstone SX 600 so installing the motherboard is pretty straightforward we just need to remove this cable management shroud at the bottom right of where the board goes and our rise in test bench complete with a knock to a low profile cooler with a 92 millimeter fan on the bottom should slot in a little something like chill ammo you've got an extra standoff in here Anthony that's like Intel boards only when's the last time anybody put those in it's ok as long as the board didn't die for the power supply we ran into a small issue though in the default configuration which would have had it mounted like this using this grill right here as an intake for the power supply our power connector coming out the back was gonna interfere with our RAM slot see now one remedy would be to use a right angle connector but honestly we thought it made more sense to just carve out this little area on the bracket right here so that we could mount the power supply the other way around this gives it lots of clearance something that I'm sure will be fixed by the time you guys deal with it is the weird coloring for the front wires this is the kind of stuff we deal with when it comes to early units sometimes it's like white black and red yellow and then which ones positive negative it's kind of a flipping coin moving on to the GPU to keep the form factor low profile enough to maintain the original computers dimensions we needed a PCI Express riser for our graphics card this is another thing that I would like to see improved in the final design right now it just kind of sits here so you kind of slot the bottom of the card in over here it just doesn't fit spectacularly well then at the back you've just got this like two pieces that you're gonna kind of screw together to clamp it on there kind of thing it just kind of hangs there but maybe they could do some work on that later I mean overall the looking at it the layouts not bad let's get it wired up I don't know what they were thinking with this cable shroud what's the point of it I think I think that makes sense yeah gotta install our SSD we actually had to remove this mount because we had trouble closing the case with it in place but you know there's still time to fix those kinds of things in future Hardware revisions ok this wire is a problem how that's that will reach oh just about lost my screwdriver bit in there okay powering it on as expected with the 60 millimeter fans it is a little noisier than I'd like and that is even without the included fan controller that made them louder than just using splitters and then headers off the motherboard so let's get a stress test fired app in summary building in this thing is a lot easier than finding and then modding an old Apple - for modern hardware but it's still kind of a pain and as expected the 60 millimeter fans combined with the authentic but not super effective slot design back here means that pretty much as soon as you start up a 3d load you're going to be generating a fair bit of noise so for cooling our CPU hit 74 to 75 degrees under load so you can expect to see a little bit of boost but our GPU hit its thermal threshold at 84 degrees and dialed back its boost clocks now considering you are using a low profile CPU cooler with its 120 millimeter fan removed this isn't too shabby but I have seen better results in smaller cases which brings us then neatly to the conclusion if it wasn't clear from the start let me spell it out for you here this is a niche product with niche appeal absolutely not for everyone and I guess that's reflected in its small but enthusiastic community that allowed it to be funded over on IndieGoGo the product needs some tweaking before it hits mass production especially when it comes to ease of use in acoustics but if you can live with the cost and the compromises and there will be some this is definitely one of the most unique PC cases we've ever seen this video is brought to you by three value-oriented Rosewill products the Cullinan MX tempered glass RGB gaming case features four pre-installed fans with adjustable RGB via a remote including four pre-programmed effects the nebula GX 50 gaming headset features built in RGB rings on leatherette ear cups and provides strong 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