I don’t know how paying that much for a case would be justifiable. The most I’ll ever spend on a case was when I bought my Fractal Design R5 after it launched.
It is what’s packed into the inside that counts and when I have the option of spending $500 on a case or putting that money into components or real life issues then it’s going to the latter. My computer isn’t a trophy. My computer is a workstation.
Funny too. When I got my R5 I was torn between it and the Enthoo Pro because of aesthetics. I’m proud 15 year old me made the right choice
by weight the aluminum sheets cost like $40 (google), and length so i can bend them myself (just checked) google; going to metal work shop + additional screws is going to cost me like $20 a day entry maybe lower depends… spray paint a $10-20… so we have about $90 here in usa. For me to do it myself…
for a company it should be half that price + price of a person working $30/h or so, and you can make about 1/hour if you optimize your process. Now lets say they paid before $5 for aluminum, and now they have to pay $20-30 - i don’t give a fck as a customer if product is $20-30 more expensive - and they can add it that its cause of high prices of materials.
No, they filed for bankruptcy… likely they took all kinds of loans and shit and it was just a good reason to close it fck down.
but do tell me whats so fcken expensive about metal sheets that prices soar same as high-end gpu.
You’re forgetting about all the tooling in a factory needed, and the initial cost to design a case. A new case design, if no existing tooling exists, costs hundreds of thousands of dollars in tooling.
I’m sure there is also the time a designer spends on it, not to mention a QA engineer. They make a lot more than $30/h. Seeing as how each case had huge amounts of variation there was definitely a lot of work going into that.
aha so they were just a front company, while Chinese doing everything. I don’t mind them going out of business. They are a lie - of usa company… they don’t produce anything.
In late 2010, we looked at what was available in the enthusiast case market and felt we could offer something that was significantly more flexible. Our goal was to design a case that was extremely modular and would allow a user to easily tailor the case to their exact needs without the need for difficult and time consuming modifications. The overwhelming majority of cases on the market impose strict design constraints; the choices for mounting hardware and cooling systems are very limited
no, I hate business posing as its from certain country, and pricing their stuff as if they were made locally. Instead they made it in china for $50 or something and sell it to us for $500.
If case design plus tooling costs that much. Likely they will need to take out business loans which they have to make payments on. Somehow they have to make a profit to keep the lights on and pay off their debt and feed the employees. On top of being in a niche market. Then that’s probably why the “$50” case costs $500. Because it has to.
