The Strangest Computer Designs of the 2010s



2010 to 2019 were turbulent years in the prebuilt computer market, with such stagnation that the media declared the death of the PC outright. But instead of dying, they evolved, with increasingly eye-catching and experimental designs. So let’s look at systems from the decade that really stood out for their design and significance!

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00:00 Introduction
00:31 Weird Computers of The 2010s
00:41 The Jack PC
01:28 Apple Mac Pro Trash Can
02:13 [Bonus!] HP Wave & Samsung ArtPC
02:20 Alienware Area 51
03:18 CDO Volta V
04:02 eMachines Mini-e ER1402
04:44 Acer Predator 21 X
05:40 Fujitsu CH702 Floral Kiss
06:29 Hewlett-Packard Omen X 900
07:17 Asus ROG GX700
08:03 Cyberpower Trinity Xtreme
08:48 Zotac ZBOX 01520
09:38 Razer Project Valerie

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47 thoughts on “The Strangest Computer Designs of the 2010s”

  1. The Predator is brilliant and it opened the door to a whole bunch of large computers with everything you ever needed: usb ports, audio connections, ethernet jacks, the works; I'm writing this from my fat boy MSI GT-75.

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  2. One interesting thing to note about the Trash-Can Mac was that the maxed-out dual-GPU model had such bad thermal management, that you could get video artifacts caused by super hot Vram chips. Contrary to popular belief, the internal volume dedicated to the triangular heatsink would likely have been enough, if it was designed correctly. It has a few very thick aluminum fins. Had it been a finely finned copper unit instead, it would've still been hot, but not hardware-gore literally-begging-for-death hot.

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  3. Its weird to see that 2017 9k$ superlaptop was so massive yet just a few years later way slimmer and more powerful machines are common place, technological progress is amazing

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  4. im a woman and i do have to admit….. i really like the way the floral kiss looks… 😳 buts its really stupid that they made a 'laptop for women' as if women dont already use laptops

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  5. Oh no, this lovely little miniseries is running out of decades!

    Not unless it back tracks to past ones that were not covered yet. or there's been crazy ones in the last two years, which I doubt.

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  6. I remember when I had some cash and was looking to buy a beast PC, I was genuinely stuck between the omen box and the Alienware area 51. Both were just fantastically out there!!

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  7. The design, and modding of pcs and the the structure and components of the cases in 2010 were a millon times better than now, now all pcs are the same, all cases have the same shape…just a box…cases used to have awesome designs

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  8. ah the good old days of weird computer cases. i gave up on them over a decade ago and now just have a rackmount 4u chassis in the basement, with a usb 3.2 and hdmi 2.1 cable running through a vent conduit to my living room QLED tv. i mean, what else do you really need? these days, people visiting are always stumped…where is the pc? lol there is no spoon. everything is hidden away, zero noise, clean and neat look.

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  9. For some reason, the Floral Kiss reminds me of an old 50s car called the La Contessa – it was designed with all of these florishes & extras (including a matching umbrella & raincoat set) to appeal to women, but then they learned that performance is the most important selling point for a car to women as much as men, just like a computer.

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  10. Ah, the Alienware computer brands. Out of all the gaming PCs in the 2010s these always enticed me to go into PC gaming. Sadly I knew I could never afford any of these nor would my mom be able to spend that much money to get one.

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  11. I worked for the company that made the housings for the "trash can macs" back in 2014, and I saw a guy dump an entire pallet of freshly completed housings off of the loading dock, destroying the majority of the units pretty thoroughly. I thought our boss was going to literally murder the guy, lol.

    Anyway, don't hire tweakers.

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  12. weird question but I've seen your synth setup video and I was wondering would you ever do and pc build for old DAW's as this is something I'm trying to do myself and I'm struggling because there's hardly any info on this topic today and I've never built a pc before if you could help let me know or if anyone reading could help let me know also

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  13. The Floral Kiss laptop is so hilariously patronizing you can't even get mad at it. It's as if a roomful of marketing professionals all sat around a table and tried to answer the question, "What descriptive words do you associate with women and femininity that aren't too sexual?" and after two hours the best words they could come up with were "Flowers" and "Lipstick/kissing."

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  14. What is crazy to me, is my last PC Build was in 2004. If I recall, it was a Celeron 500, Nvidia Geforce 256 DDR, I think 32 megabytes of ram (I'll be honest, I can't remember the ram). It had a Soundblaster Live card (that should date me a bit). It served me well in my college years. It had a good run until 2009ish. Then I took a hiatus from PC. I skipped this era of PC building.

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