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graycat 9y ago
Thanks. As I made clear, I don't much care, but that would be nice. But I will also want to get black OUT of the inside where it is most important that I be able to see. There just some cheap, thin, white coat will let me see, and that's what's crucial. It's not furniture or home decorating. Instead, it's just a mechanical part of a crucial tool for my business. When my business works, then I'll consider art in a nice house but even then not in my server farm for my business. My point is really just dirt simple, and I'm having a really tough time getting it across; I want to get the point across in hopes the makers of desktop PCs will hear and act. Without repeating a dozen times, I just don't know how to be more clear: The PC I need is a tool, just a tool, for my business. I care, care nearly everything, about my business. The PC is not home decorating anymore than a set of socket wrenches is. For that PC, I have no interest in style, fashion, art, or home decorating. For black, for me, it's really, really serious: Without 200-400 W of incandescent light, I just can't see clearly enough for the work. It's that simple. Only that simple. I just need to see. With black, I can't see. With nearly anything else, I can. I just want to see. Otherwise I don't care except don't really want a fashion statement. I'll put up with a fashion statement if I can see to work on the parts in the case. Think of the case as something in a workshop or on a factory floor, not furniture; but I've said all that and don't know what to do to be more clear than just to say it again. Maybe the problem is that the OP and nearly everyone else on this thread is talking about fashion, and I'm not and instead -- I don't want to repeat a dozen times. I could scream loudly enough to be heard on Mars -- I need a mechanical tool I can see to work with, don't care about fashion, and don't want fashion to get in the way. I could scream that point loudly enough to blow down all the trees and houses in all of NYS. All it is about is just one word -- seeing. Nothing could be more simple.
- nonbel 9y ago
  > "Without 200-400 W of incandescent light, I just can't see clearly enough for the work." Why can't you use a CFL or LED?
  - graycat 9y ago
    I was just indicating the amount of light without looking up the quantity in lumens. But, actually, so far, I'm still on incandescent light. For CFL, I have one, puts out about the same amount of light as a 15 W incandescent, and I have it over the kitchen sink running 24 x 7, e.g., as a kitchen "night light". My issue is simple, all in just one word -- seeing. I need to see clearly inside the case when building and/or maintaining the computer. It's not about the heat or cost of electricity for the light. It's just about seeing clearly, e.g., each screw, wire, cable, socket, etc. Inside a black case, it's tough to see clearly without a lot of light. So, on the outside, maybe I'll get a spray can and paint it white. On the inside, maybe I'll get a brush and some cheap white paint and give it quick, crude job of painting it white without covering over small holes. Ah, I was frustrated, kept hoping some case manufacturer would get away from black. But, sure, there's an easy solution, for much less trouble than shopping for a beige or white case -- just go ahead and accept a black case and just repaint the thing. Then back to my business.

Thanks. As I made clear, I don't much care, but that would be nice. But I will also want to get black OUT of the inside where it is most important that I be able to see. There just some cheap, thin, white coat will let me see, and that's what's crucial. It's not furniture or home decorating. Instead, it's just a mechanical part of a crucial tool for my business. When my business works, then I'll consider art in a nice house but even then not in my server farm for my business. My point is really just dirt simple, and I'm having a really tough time getting it across; I want to get the point across in hopes the makers of desktop PCs will hear and act. Without repeating a dozen times, I just don't know how to be more clear: The PC I need is a tool, just a tool, for my business. I care, care nearly everything, about my business. The PC is not home decorating anymore than a set of socket wrenches is. For that PC, I have no interest in style, fashion, art, or home decorating. For black, for me, it's really, really serious: Without 200-400 W of incandescent light, I just can't see clearly enough for the work. It's that simple. Only that simple. I just need to see. With black, I can't see. With nearly anything else, I can. I just want to see. Otherwise I don't care except don't really want a fashion statement. I'll put up with a fashion statement if I can see to work on the parts in the case. Think of the case as something in a workshop or on a factory floor, not furniture; but I've said all that and don't know what to do to be more clear than just to say it again. Maybe the problem is that the OP and nearly everyone else on this thread is talking about fashion, and I'm not and instead -- I don't want to repeat a dozen times. I could scream loudly enough to be heard on Mars -- I need a mechanical tool I can see to work with, don't care about fashion, and don't want fashion to get in the way. I could scream that point loudly enough to blow down all the trees and houses in all of NYS. All it is about is just one word -- seeing. Nothing could be more simple.

nonbel 9y ago
> "Without 200-400 W of incandescent light, I just can't see clearly enough for the work." Why can't you use a CFL or LED?
- graycat 9y ago
  I was just indicating the amount of light without looking up the quantity in lumens. But, actually, so far, I'm still on incandescent light. For CFL, I have one, puts out about the same amount of light as a 15 W incandescent, and I have it over the kitchen sink running 24 x 7, e.g., as a kitchen "night light". My issue is simple, all in just one word -- seeing. I need to see clearly inside the case when building and/or maintaining the computer. It's not about the heat or cost of electricity for the light. It's just about seeing clearly, e.g., each screw, wire, cable, socket, etc. Inside a black case, it's tough to see clearly without a lot of light. So, on the outside, maybe I'll get a spray can and paint it white. On the inside, maybe I'll get a brush and some cheap white paint and give it quick, crude job of painting it white without covering over small holes. Ah, I was frustrated, kept hoping some case manufacturer would get away from black. But, sure, there's an easy solution, for much less trouble than shopping for a beige or white case -- just go ahead and accept a black case and just repaint the thing. Then back to my business.