Antec LanBoy Air ATX Case Review

Did you guys get a new camera? 'cause the pictures look nice

Same old DSLR that I have used in all my other reviews, but thank you!

Nice review, Steve. With all those power tools, I thought you were disassembling the original Ironman suit rather than the LanBoy Air . Unfortunately, I'm that gamer with multiple hard drives who also happens to work in a fairly dust-prone environment. I'm gonna have to give this case a pass and maybe look into getting a Corsair case for my next build.

A ***** to clean without canned air.

LanBoy... meh...

To me Lanboy should have been something more like LianLi/Silverstone type of mini-ITX case...
having in mind gigabyte's H55N-USB3 with nice i5 and juicy GPU... that kind of build I would consider as a LAN machine...

I would rather call this "CageBoy"...

I quite like it...Looks rough 'n' ready.

At first glance I thought cool! and then my nerd brain kicked in with all the issues this would have. I was gonna post them but Steve got them all. lol!

But what I don't really get is if this case is designed for air then why even bother with having the holes for watercooling. Also, why even have the handles if you have to unplug and replug the HDs every time you move.

Hopefully they'll throw this back into the thinktank and maybe come up with something better.

You'd think they would have learned when the original antec 900 became a vacuum replacement. Now their cases use dust filters. I fail to see why this one doesn't.

Good review, and you mentioned the two biggest things that came to my mind the instant i saw the pictures of this thing... how on earth are the case fans going to do anything, and it's going to be a huge pain to clean the dust out of it. They obviously wanted the look of grates and screens everywhere, but it must make the case fans just about worthless. They wont' be able to create any air pressure to force the warm air out. maybe I just don't get it.

And i'd still need to get over owning a case called 'LanBoy'. Makes the Thermaltake Armor look MUCH more appealing. http://www.techspot.com/review/355-thermaltake-armor-a30/

its nice if you live in a garage

Now those tools you have there for size comparison, are those the regular 16 oz ..or the 20 oz?

The guys over at Maximum PC evaluated this case and said that it's cooling was actually very good...but they had the same concern over dust: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/luxury_towers_we_review_5_best_cases_money_can_buy.

Red please don’t be silly, it’s obvious they are the 20 oz models. Haha

I really hope no one else knows that you are on about or we will end up with another 3 pages of crap LOL thanks for the laugh though

Lan-Boy sounds like it should be John Deere green, 2-cycle, and have a bottom exhaust.

Unplug the hard drives to move it? Fail.

In Keeping with the DeWalt Theme.....

Here's the mother lode of tacky black and yellow, over priced DeWalt product......http://www.google.com/images?client...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1421&bih=813. I'm especially fond of the boom boxes.......

Hey, you started it.

If you're going (tacky) yellow and black then I think this is a little more understated -and probably more practical. (Dis)Honourable mention to our second-place contestant.

Almost as tacky as mine ey Chef? ::wave:

haha good one, I bet you are a Ryobi man because they get the job done no fuss