There are fanless workstations. I have two large silent fans: one in the power supply and one over the cpu in my monolithic 2007 PC. How about a load of mini-

There are fanless workstations. I have two large silent fans: one in the power supply and one over the cpu in my monolithic 2007 PC. How about a load of mini-itx boards suspended in cooking fat? I agree in that most workstation units have are visually lack lustre. I was asking someone the other day why they don't wrap X model of iPhone in alumunium or titananium, and he said that it costs too much. But surely they are so small that it wouldn't hurt to add some luxury materials - a can of pop comes with a free alu can. The design actually reminds me perhaps of a precursor to the R1 astromech droids (on the inside.)