Lian Li PC-AO4 Aluminum Mini-Tower PC Case | Lian Li PC-AO4 Silver Aluminum ...
25.04.11
Detailed Exterior Features
The control panel is pretty basic, and that's a visual design choice I believe, more than anything else. From left to right there are, the Power and Reset buttons which have a nice sturdy feel to them. The next items are all I/O points leading to cables on the interior of the case. We have the standard MIC and Headphone jacks with lime green and salmon colored trim rings to identify them. Then we have a standard USB 2.0 port, a new USB 3.0 port, and to wrap it up, an eSATA port. Nothing is illuminated here; in contrast to many enthusiast cases, the only lights on the PC-A04 are two small LEDs for power and HDD activity.
There are two 5.25" drive bays in the front, and unless you have a drive with a matching silver faceplate, the combination of one drive and one cover plate looks a little untidy. It definitely ruins the monolithic character of the design, and forces it to show its true colors. It's soooo obvious that it's a PC now, not a Mac. Any Apple product worth its salt would have a very thin gap milled in the front surface for a slot-loading DVD drive. Sadly, I threw out the silver faceplate that came with the last ODD I bought, thinking that I'd never have any place to use it. Two black-faced ODD units would look much better, even though they may not be needed. Maybe this is the right time to buy that Blu-ray drive you've been wanting...
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