“For years, Windows PC owners have been able to connect to an iPod. Now they can have a computer that looks like the iconic digital music player. Logisys Computer this week added the ePod Soho case to its lineup of unusual PC shells. The white PC case has several ‘buttons’ resembling those found on the scroll wheel of an Apple Computer iPod, as well as a blue LED light that gives the case a constant backlit glow,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
“The ePod is a shell into which individuals or custom PC makers would need to add a processor, motherboard, hard drive and other components,” Fried reports. “The ePod is currently shown on Logisys’s Web site, but it is not yet available through any retailers. A Logisys representative said the company has not had any communications with Apple.”
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “TruthDetector” for the link.]
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Gross.
That is the stupidest PC case that I have ever seen. This is what passes for innovation in the PC/Windows world.
Talk about making a sow’s ear out of a silk purse…
gag me with a spoon
I’m sp… sp… sp… speechless!
Laugh or cry? I can’t decide…
So, THIS is what passes for “design” in the PeeSea dungeon?
That’s absolutely pathetic.
shes a bit of an old dog really
Am I the only one that thinks it doesn’t look anything like an iPod?
That is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
If I want a computer that looks like an iPod (which I NEVER do), I’ll wait until Apple makes one.
Until that, then this is crap.
That’s uglier than a Dell box..
Lame. Nice try but it’s still a big ugly old pc box.
First of all, it doesn’t even look remotely like an iPod. It’s got a large circular shape on the front, that’s where the similarites end other than the color.
And while we are on the subject of the large circular area, its a good time to point out why Apple excels in design and other companies don’t. Apple doesn’t add arbitrary elements to their designs, which is exactly what this element is.
Frankly, if we did go as far as to say that it was similar to the iPod then it follows suit with everything else the PC industry does. Cheap crappy looking knock-off.
Kevin, look at the front. Bottom half.
Disregard everything else.
Looks like the iPod, but that’s the only thing that does, and it’s a cheap imitation.
filled with microshite, who would want a blue led lit toilet
It HAS come to this…Apple gives Windows users the iPod and this is how the Windows community repays Apple.
PCathetic
How long before Apple’s lawyer force them to change the name?
Putting lipstick on a pig makes it …, er, a pig.
and furthermore, why is it that every hack company thinks that slapping blue LED’s all over things is good design.
I suppose though they are marketing this to the same crowd that think putting neon light under your car looks cool too.
Why is it that NOBODY can design cases/computers but Apple? It really isn’t that hard, but still, everyone makes garbage. Sometimes when I see things like this I literally thank God for Apple, or we’d all live in ugly-ville… geez…
It’s for people who think that:
Reality TV breaks new ground,
Country music is innovative,
Large portions are the sign of a good meal,
Leno is funnier than Letterman.
In short…it’s for the tasteless majority. This machine will do well.
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
-H.L. Mencken
That will look right purty in my new doublewide. yep!
It doesn’t even begin to look like an iPod.
Beautiful!
NOT.
LOL!
Amazing how crap some computer design is still these days!
It lives up to the images of windows pcs design being a pos!
hehe – that thing is butt ugly!
If only they could make it bigger…
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It take a touch of genius and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
imitation is the ultimate form of flattery
iPod lookalike?????
Ever seen an ipod???????
Am I the only one here who believes that this is an absolute work of art?
Next on the Logisys creative list.
The ePot or e-Toilet. It will be white with a scroll wheel lid. A blue light for the swirling waterfall. And 5 times the necessary size.
But just think how good it’ll look running Vista!
At least it can be shoved under a desk, out of sight, where all p.o.s. PCs belong.
But just think how good it’ll look running Vista!
At least it can be shoved under a desk, out of sight, where all p.o.s. PCs belong.
But just think how good it’ll look running Vista!
At least it can be shoved under a desk, out of sight, where all p.o.s. PCs belong.
But just think how good it’ll look running Vista!
At least it can be shoved under a desk, out of sight, where all p.o.s. PCs belong.
It looks like one of those Creative Zen excuse-for-an-iPod-knockoff dealies to me…. Not like an iPod at all.
–mAc
Think of the possibilities-at least the videos would look great if a 17* screen was installed on the side.
Since Podner has has to change it’s name, I think that the makers of this “ePod” are going to get a call from Apple’s lawyers very soon. Oh, BTW, to those who made this abomination, Apple already made a computer that looks like an iPod, it’s called an iMac.
Chill people, I’ve seen a hell of a lot worse.
Yes I am a Mac user.
I allready own a computer that is iPod inspired-it’s called an iMac.
That monstrosity pictured above will haunt my dreams, waking me in a pool of cold sweat as cry out,”Dear God, what is that thing!”
MDN Magic word: Away-as in keep that thing away from me!
What manner of egregiousness is this? Is Apple the only company capable of designing anything cool? Come on, where is the competition? This is downright laughable.
“Reality TV breaks new ground,
Country music is innovative,
Large portions are the sign of a good meal,
Leno is funnier than Letterman.”
Well…3 out 4 ain’t bad.
Letterman hasn’t been remotely funny since his morning talk show.
“Beef Q-tips”
My first reaction was: “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”
Then I thought about it as a PC user and thought, “That’s one of the nicest cases I’ve ever seen.”
delldailynews.com
*waves of orgasms
PC wet dream
iYiYi!!!!
Oh, great. I just vomited in my mouth a little.
I have to use a windows machine at work in addition to my G5. I’d sure rather have a case like this than an even uglier Dell box. THATS WHY THEY MADE THIS PEOPLE. IT HAS IT’S PLACE!
the E in ePod must stand for egnert.
“Letterman hasn’t been remotely funny since his morning talk show.”
Even if that were true, he’d still be funnier than Jay Leno. I think Leno forgot how to tell a joke in about 1975.
did anyone notice that “The ePod is a shell into which individuals or custom PC makers would need to add a processor, motherboard, hard drive and other components”. In short Logisys offers poor PC users nothing more than a way to pimp their ride to look more like an Apple. An iPod no less. The bottom of the Apple food chain. Not even the consumer grade model. Is that self loathing or what?
But you gotta give ’em props for making a computer that actually looks exactly like the iPod.
I mean what the fsck.
Doesn’t look much like an iPod but I love the backlighting –yum, just like an escapee from a modded Max Power car!
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It’s everything that’s great about the iPod, only better!!! Super Cool !!!
“A Logisys representative said the company has not had any communications with Apple.”
Small wonder. Right now, Apple’s legal guys are cleaning the conference room that was messed up when ten lawyers shot coffee through their noses upon seeing the pics of this ePod thingy. The cease-and-desist order will come as soon as the mad giggling has stopped.
It’s as ugly as the software it runs on…
In fact its so ugly it has Ed Zachary disease:
A woman was very distraught at the fact that she had not had a date or any sex in quite some time. She was afraid she might have something wrong with her, so she decided to seek the medical expertise of a sex therapist. Her doctor recommended that she see a well-known Chinese sex therapist, so she went to see him. Upon entering the examination room, Dr. Chang said, “OK, take off all you crose.” The woman did as she was told.
“Now, get down and craw reery, reery fass to odder side of room.” Again, the woman did as she was instructed. Dr. Chang then said, “OK, now craw reery, reery fass back to me.” So she did.
Dr. Chang shook his head slowly and said, “Your probrem vewy bad. You haf Ed Zachary Disease. Worse case I ever see. Dat why you not haf sex or dates.” Worried, the woman asked anxiously, “Oh my God, Dr. Chang, what is Ed Zachary Disease?”
…Dr. Chang looked the woman in the eye and replied, “Ed Zachary Disease is when your face rook Ed Zachary rike your ass.”
Macaday:
That joke is so old, Columbus beat the shit out of an Indian for telling it.
Wow! a click wheel on a PC! About time! Now I can carry it around and use it on the bus!
That door, just above the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ click-wheel thingme – is an ashtray.
And yeah, the so-called ‘designer’ should kill himself.