Borg Cube PC

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Originally published at: Borg Cube PC | Boing Boing

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This Star Trek Borg Cube ATX PC is built as a lower-cost, budget machine…

It can go as slow as a Borg, too.

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Specs are irrelevant. Comparison shopping is futile. Your workspace will adapt to service ours.

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It’s been kinda done before: NeXTcube - Wikipedia

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At least it wasn’t a human head:

they had the major unveiling where they were going to pull off the curtain and they, they gave us, designed a really fantastic buildup and it really was, every computer was going to look like this in five years and they pulled off the curtain. And it was a human - it was in the shape of a human head. From the neck up and the board’s plugged in the back of the skull.
NeXT Cube Intro | all about Steve Jobs.com

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I know nothing about Borg Cubes, but somebody needs to at least mention the great Louise Nevelson here. Sky Cathedral, 1958
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This extremely greebled PC case would like you to know…

urban dictionary - greeble:

  1. An entity that cats can see but humans can’t. Cats are driven insane by them and must destroy them.
  2. Random bumps, extrusions, and hills and valleys, usually planar. Used in 3D modeling and animation to add interesting detail
  3. To be a Greeble is committing to the piece of shit that you are. It means doing the things you enjoy that don’t necessarily benefit you or advance you towards your life goals.
  4. The small, spherical particles made by rubbing boogers in a circular motion between the thumb and index finger.

from the context of which the correct definition may be intuited (perhaps)

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You fool! Don’t touch it! It is a Borg Egg!

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The cost of joining the collective is quite steep: the loss of your individuality and free will…and $949.

Not quite as steep when you consider that this isn’t just a computer case but a complete Ryzen PC.

  • CPU: RYZEN 5 5600
  • MOBO: MSI A520M -APRO
  • STORAGE: 480GB NVME
  • MEMORY: 8GB RAM
  • GPU: GTX 1660 SUPER
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Colossus: We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom, freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of your species.

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Shirley you jest. These are greebles.

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It’s worth pointing out that $949 is for a fully pre-built PC, not just the case. It doesn’t look like this cheaper version of the case is sold standalone, but the premium version (with a ton of what look to be well-executed lights, a tempered glass window) is $399. Which is a ton of money for a case, but not unreasonable for a weird low-volume premium speicalty case.

Oh, and there are pre-built options in the budget case starting at $649.

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The term has a very long history in both model building (especially for movies) and LEGO. I’m surprised the Urban Dictionary entry covers neither of those cases. This is not the high journalistic standards I have come to expect from Urb- oh… never mind.

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It’s fun when you spot what the greebles are from on movie props. Like upside down ice trays painted to look like a sci-fi texture.

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