I’ve wanted one of these ever since I first saw it many years ago. Still want it for my retro PC setup… so cool 
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
EDIT: The non Platinum Pro version came with this you added to a optical drive bay.
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From personal experience I can say that at least the Sun workstation has more metal sharp edges than the average pc finger cuter case.
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I always put have of these in my retro machine. The ribbon cable works with both the Audigy 2 and later X-Fi cards.
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I don’t have pictures, but I had a 5.25 fan controller in my LanBoy Air many years ago. That was a fucking mess. 
One of my more stylish setups had
2x
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SIGNATURE2 LE
2048MB GDDR5 DVI mHDMI DP Graphics Cards in SLI.
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I like the finished and simple looks of the pro lines for modern Nvidia and AMD GPUs.
I tend to dislike megazord transformers pc gaming aesthetics. But hey at least its not as ugly as the PS5 right?
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Man I hate the PS5 fat design with a passion. You need a stand to put it in horizontal orientation. If you pull it, it slides off. You can’t tell with a glance what the correct orientation is. Even one Sony rep had it upside down in the background of their own damn anouncement video, which I found hilarious.
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I agree it’s a hideous design that I loathed, but the thread title is iconic hardware, not aesthetic hardware.
The XFX gpus of the time could easily be told apart from all the other shitty edgelord designs.
Likewise, the old apple iBooks
…can be spotted from a mile away, but unlike XFX the hardware (and software) was dogshit so it served as a good warning to stay the hell away from during high school computer lab assignments. Unfortunately everyone soon caught on how bad the toilet seats are, resulting in a rush to occupy the few better devices. This was a time when apple was trying to put their stuff in schools to “get them young”.
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This was my first computer before 2000! (someone else’s pic but same stuff)
It had Intel 845G graphics. I had the wheel too (was 270 non-FFB, but cool at the time). I still have the speaker 9V power base and CD case.
I hear rumors there was a Barbie one around the same time too 
(never saw or heard of anyone having it)
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When I think visually iconic
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The original BeBox BeOS bebox at DuckDuckGo
Two Tone or Pure Blue with twin front panels with LED CPU core indicators for the PPC chips…
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I always wanted a Xi3 Piston.
The Mini PC / Steam Box made for Valve by Company ‘Xi3’ .
I think it looks cool. Too bad the performance sucks.
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I worked designing products for Black & Decker in the early 2000’s.
Had a Sawtooth Power Mac G4 on my desk w/ matching 21" monitor.
When the iMac came out, translucent plastics were the latest fad.
So the marketing department made me add translucent elements (like knobs) to as many products as possible.
Translucent plastic didn’t increase sales.
But it did increase people stealing the knobs from items on display in stores.
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They’d make cool-looking Kodi TV boxes (looks like it’d handle decoding mostly anything)
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