I can't use a tower!

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What company still builds (recent) models that are not towers. Everywhere I
look I see nothing but tower computers. I need the horizonal type to fit in
my computer desk. Tks.
-Pete
 
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What company still builds (recent) models that are not towers. Everywhere I
look I see nothing but tower computers. I need the horizonal type to fit in
my computer desk. Tks.
-Pete

Did you actually spend time looking for non-tower desktop cases? A quick
visit to Newegg.com turned up 25 ATX desktop cases with a few clicks
(well, they actually showed 26 but one of them looked suspiciously like
a little tower to me). I'll admit that there are only a relatively few
horizontal cases when compared to all of the verticals but they
certainly do exist.

BTW, I'm not suggesting that you buy anything from Newegg. Personally I
don't like them all that much but I used them as an example because so
many others seem to love them.
 
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What company still builds (recent) models that are not towers.
Everywhere I look I see nothing but tower computers. I need the
horizonal type to fit in my computer desk. Tks.


Lot of them.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010090007+1054808288&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=7
shows 26 matches. Why not just turn the tower on its side?

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It turns the CDs sideways. While most Cd drives actually will work this
way, the tray is sometimes a bit tricky to load and unload sideways.

Is there any way to use mini disks with vertical CD drives, preferrably
an adapter when an external drive can't be used?
 
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What company still builds (recent) models that are not towers. Everywhere I
look I see nothing but tower computers. I need the horizonal type to fit in
my computer desk. Tks.
-Pete


These days they're most often called home theater or
multimedia PC cases, and often disproportionately higher
priced as a result (relative to similar quality tower case).

As others have mentioned, peruse newegg.com as even if you
want to buy somewhere else, newegg has great pictures and a
good variety.
 
Is there any way to use mini disks with vertical CD drives,
preferrably
an adapter when an external drive can't be used?


Ask the OP. Only he knows if he has or ever will have a need for
mini-disks. He didn't mention a need for a flash card reader, too, or
that he intends on using huge tower coolers on the CPU that would
break the tangs on the CPU socket if he went toting it around. If he
is planning for some future that may or may not pass regarding
equipment or media that he may or may not use then he will have
problems with the desktop case when, as yet another possible usage, he
later gets a different desk or lays out his gear differently and ends
up turning that desktop case on its side to then be a tower.

The suggestion of turning the tower on its side was if the OP truly
cannot manage to find suitable desktop cases as he claimed. No matter
which configuration you choose, it will have limitations for possible
future features. Since the OP seems to be squeezing the case into a
particular recess in his desk, dimensions will be the overriding and
critical factor in choosing a case whether for a desktop or tower
unit.

It was a pretty vague and generic question so I didn't bother going
into all the possibilities in limitations in either orientation.
 
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