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Depends on your taste, I guess. For me this is quite minimalist:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41A-xmDb8nL...



There is a reason they call those "bookshelf" speakers. No great place you can put them outside of an office or a dedicated space you can give them enough separation.


I personally would not want these monstrosities anywhere in my house.


Yes, it depends on taste. Those are just boxes...


They look like the sort of pack-in speakers you got free with a Packard Bell computer in 1993.


They look like reasonable bookcase speakers to me, not enough hard gray plastic with yellowing from heat to be vintage OEM like these:

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/Bi0AAOSw5cRZICJN/$...


Not to dogpile, but do you remember the 90s? In 1993, computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige, to the point that in the late 90s having a black PC was a design trend instead of the default.


do you remember the 90s?

I do remember the 90's. I wasn't a fan of it.

computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige

I used to dream about one day pounding away on SGI gear. I eventually (early/mid-2000's) got moved to an office with meteorologists that had Indigos and Octanes, and I think Irisseseses. Blue was awesome. But then they all got replaced by generic Dell machines. Ick.

I remember back before all computers looked the same. Back when keyboards were vastly different between models, and would have blue or red or brown or very rarely green keys. Standardization? That was for the Telex at work. Computers were going to free us from that tyranny. Except they didn't.


If what you really want from your computing experience is freedom in the form of a colorful keyboard, there's options out there for you. Perhaps you would like to start with some cute pastels? https://thekey.company/products/dsa-magic-girl-keycaps-round...


> computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige

Not true. Digital (DEC) PCs were "almost white" (maybe stightly off-white but still approaching a cream, not beige).

Hard to find a picture that shows this without having aged but this does a good job: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/68...

Note the marked difference between the beige floppy drive and the case.

Also: https://www.speedhelp.net/Bilder/Computer/ISA/P1/digital_ven...


That seems pretty not white to me.




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