Lord help me, I’m thinking impure thoughts about a computer case again.
I remember laughing at loud at “it’s partly wood” in the matter-of-fact headline we wrote about the Fractal Design North when it first appeared, because it is, in fact, partly wood. That’s what I love about it! We’ve gone from tempered glass being the most popular thing in case design, through a wave of high airflow mesh designs, into a new, exciting aesthetic era taking advantage of a material we’ve been building things out of for, I don’t know, 10,000 years? Slightly longer than we’ve had computers, anyway.
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The Fractal Design North is stately. Regal. And proof that you can build a fantastically classy PC without it being particularly expensive. It’s a reasonable $140 normally, but thanks to an Amazon Prime Day deal the white model with a mesh side panel is on sale for $109.99, which I believe is the cheapest it’s ever been.
This is the exact model I’d buy if I didn’t already own a very nice (also white) Lian Li case. The wood calls to me, though. It’s a dead match for my desk, and if I stared at it hard enough maybe I could trick myself into imagining I was hanging out on a deck overlooking a lake instead of working. I’ll just set those front panel 140mm fans to exhaust instead of intake, lean in close, and let the warm breeze ruffle my hair…