They still look good.
Just commit a minute drug offense in the USA, and you can experience transparent electronics again.
Forget colour. That generation iMac was incredibly repairable compared to today’s Apple stuff. Two screws on the back panel and the whole internal tray slides out. Every major component’s immediately accessible. And all repair parts were available.
Cars too. In most parking lots, grey, black and white account for 95% of the car colors.
In the US.
This was the only way to know if ants are living in your Nintendo and they’re going to fry a circuit somewhere.
It’s a wasteful we moved away from this design.
I think that is more a problem that you need to clean up your room more and properly dispose of your candy wrappers. Gross.
Ants can come from anywhere and they find the electricity plus warmth of a game of Mario kart attractive.
If you’re not supposed to store candy in the cartridge slot when not playing, then I don’t want to be right!
Isn’t the 2DS from more than 10 years after most of these?
it was also almost 8 years ago already.
This design and use of cheap plastic is disgusting. Design peaked during Bauhaus.
I get that plastic is cheap, common, and often wasteful but it is also shock resistant, light, and transparent.
The problem is not “plastic”, but cheap looking shit these things were made out of. There are plenty of good looking plastic products.
Why does it matter whether it looks “cheap” though? I get that you don’t want something ugly-looking, but what’s the problem with it being cheap, as long as it works?
Because it looks like shit. What else is there to explain?
Serious question, how were these enclosures made? Is it resin? Is it plastic? How were they shaping the plastic?
According to ChatGPT is plastic injection moulding
brother, you just made it sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about
Retro Handhelds are helping to bring it back.
Also yeah yeah Steam Deck shells. Sorry I don’t want to waste one whole perfectly functional plastic shell just to buy even more future plastic pollution because it’s slightly cooler looking.
It means you have a spare. Nobody said you needed to throw anything away.
Or I could just continue using the perfectly serviceable shell I’ve got, because realistically it’s more likely to outlast the rest of the device anyway, and I’m still producing less plastic waste by abstaining from getting something I know I don’t need.
Unpopular opinion: Making shit out of translucent plastic was the single fugliest way to make a product, and I’m glad it’s gone.
