#FormFactors
March 24, 2026 at 8:33 AM
This is to ensure the correct BOM, revisions of ASIC and formfactors of parts.
May 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
everyone always love retro junk, but like, everything has been black glass rectangle tablet/phone formats for like 15+ years, unique formfactors are extra novel at this point
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
oh the rabbithole goes deeper, keyswitches formfactors sound of typing.
January 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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September 24, 2026 at 8:06 AM
oh yeah apps are great c:

i love just having all of my things being behind identical icons that are non-descriptive and increasingly samey in all of its functions and formfactors

like how could you not, its soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo handy
August 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
It dosnt even need be "baked in" (pun intended) into the appliance. Small space-saving formfactors exist that can take out current electrical stuffs, and allow them to play nice with a buffer pack (all be it with some minor recognition of potentials).
December 24, 2024 at 11:21 PM
oh yeah also I got one of these and also one of those

the DSi is kinda junky (screens really yellow, looseish hinge) so I'm probably gonna get a non-XL at some point, but also kinda like having the option of an XL DS even though I prefer the smaller formfactors
October 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I've been wanting an e-ink daily driver laptop tbh, i need @frame.work to bring the new e-ink color 60Hz displays to laptop formfactors <3
March 17, 2026 at 11:26 PM
my goal in minimizing my phone use is to try to take advantage of the good parts of tech advancements while avoiding the bad parts as much as i can. i feel like it's very hard to avoid the bad parts with my phone, but with other formfactors it's easier to be creative and keep a healthy distance
December 15, 2024 at 6:17 PM
yeah but it's not the formfactor that makes the tesla ugly.

Me and the Alpha Female Marie Gabert are similar formfactors AND YET
July 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I'll just... leave this here...

www.printables.com/model/897748...

(the designer's got several formfactors)
BeamCase ATX and microATX - compact modular (m)ATX case by BeamCase_Design | Download STL model | Printables.com
www.printables.com
March 21, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Toss in a couple packs of milky yellow Gateron switches and you'll have 80% of the enthusiast experience at a very decent price. Definitely take advantage of amazon's return policies if it isn't for you. Or you can then dive into the rabbit hole of groupbuy cases and keycap sets or silly formfactors
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Those HP EliteDesks (all formfactors) are some of my favorites. I have a SFF one for my OPNsense box and a minitower for hardware testing. Both are great.
January 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I know with early 2000s phones there were more options, but formfactors of modern smartphones seem to narrow it down a lot. (Please, nobody take this as a challenge to prove me wrong.)
March 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I can appreciate that

love almonds in so many formfactors, just have yet to find something that works for my palette in milk form

(aside from almond extract and sweetener in another kind of milk!)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yeah. I grew up in a house with a 'computer room' then laptops. Active engagement and not passive endless consumption. Not constant notifications.
Trying to preserve some of that friction . But its hard because frictionless is convenient. But different formfactors/UX encourage different behaviors.
June 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Working with both. HP is frustrating in the lack of options for configuring stuff. But Dell is just as bad, while in top of that doing the Apple thing of coming up with custom formfactors of memory, power cables etc, just to lock people in.
January 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Though I agree that there's far too many loose factors (people) to be able to establish a culture that is common in smaller and more niche formfactors of groups. The tools at hand and (hopefully) in the future does assist in being able to limit how many of said factors can affect things per person
November 11, 2024 at 7:42 PM
lmao i mean the 360 was a case of feeling like they had to rush the thing out the door to get ahead of PS3 but i take your meaning. that's a big part of the reason they rev'd the 360 into the S and E formfactors bc they needed to rework the CPU seating (and get rid of the memory card slots booooo)
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
are there now 3 formfactors devs have to make now

iphone, ipad, duo?
I was honestly expecting them just to use the ipad layout to make it feel better
September 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
computers used in space have the most interesting formfactors
August 30, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Would a smaller, but still large enough to be present, flat area be sufficient for you, or no (see photo, that flat is about 1/4"+ on each side)?

(Taking another leap forward and designing some new formfactors)
July 11, 2023 at 3:06 AM