WYP
News Guru
This new case was designed in collaboration with DAN Cases.
Read more about Lian Li's A4-H2O ITX chassis.
Read more about Lian Li's A4-H2O ITX chassis.
Lian Li has officially launches their A4-H2O Mini-ITX chassis
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Exterior they basically copied from the Ncase M6 but internally it's different enough. 119 ain't a bad price either for a true ITX case.
AlienALX
Well-known member
They didn't copy it. They made the Ncase M6.
Ncase are now defunct, so I would imagine that Lian Li are still using the tooling etc they paid for to make the Ncase for its creator.
Personally yes, I think Jonsbo ITX cases are the nuts, but they are useless for high end GPUs as I found out.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Just because they made it doesn't mean they are allowed to copy it...
Nvidia and AMD but let TSMC make their processors, doesn't mean TSMC can copy it and make their own.
If the legal thing says they can in their contract then sure they can. Doesn't make it any less lazy to me.
And no Ncase isn't defunct. They just stopped making the specific M6.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Jonsbo have consistently made amazing looking cases. Their designers really deserve a lot of credit. they're not always practical, but sometimes they come up with both a practical and beautiful case. I love my current Jonsbo case. It's discontinued now, like a lot of their cases, but it's great. When I bought it, they used the new Cooltek.
AlienALX
Well-known member
It's quite possible that they had a large part to do with the design. IE, what will work and what won't.
Lian Li would not "copy" anything. The fact is it probably took a lot more money to make and set up the machines and tooling to make the cases, which they may not have made back by the amount sold. So it's perfectly reasonable for that to be in the contract.
It's not lazy. It is about money. Maybe watch a few of GN's factory tour videos where it explains just how expensive the set up and tooling and machining is.
This is why most of these "smaller volume" ITX cases can cost up to £500 for something you could buy in materials for about a tenner. It's not the materials that cost the money.
I would strongly, STRONGLY doubt there is any ripping off going on here, so maybe you are just being a bit cynical?
It's others who rip off Lian Li, not the other way around.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Lmao I don't need you to explain how businesses work.
I can still think its lazy work and not like how similar it looks. But thank you for your input
I can still think its lazy work and not like how similar it looks. But thank you for your input
