Thursday, January 12th 2012
Lian Li PC-Q12 Stands ''Tall'' In Your Living Room
Lian Li showed off an innovative new case that looks to be designed for living rooms. Called the PC-Q12, the case seats a mini-ITX form-factor motherboard, with no expansion slots, that makes it look tall. It measures 88 x 365 x 280 mm (WxHxD), and is made almost entirely of aluminum. Surprisingly, it lacks an external drive bay, and the only storage bays it has are four internal 2.5-inch ones. It is ventilated by one top 80 mm exhaust fan. On its front-panel, it has two USB 3.0 ports.
8 Comments on Lian Li PC-Q12 Stands ''Tall'' In Your Living Room
However, I agree that they have the room there, why not give us the slot? Opens up possibilities such as APU Crossfire, or a TV Tuner.
Ceton Digital TV Tuner and Auzentech HDMI Audio come to mind.
A tuner would be nice, but we have USB, and honestly with modern On Demand and USB interfaces I have to ask again, who really needs it?
Granted, I haven't delved too deep into the HD audio offerings since finishing my current HTPC about 2 years ago, but it's starting to show its age so I might need to get back up to speed here pretty soon.