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I don't know if you're trolling, but whatever. Aluminum also looks much nicer and is much easier to mod, which is something enthusiasts like. Obviously, you don't really care about the way your things look, but others do. Brushed aluminum is super sexy.
I will agree with you on the window, though. It's a geek thing. No one really gave a damn about my computer when I had a window in my old case. it's something that's only for you.
But anyway, I think this case is overpriced. Lian Li has a full aluminum case with hot swap HDD rack for $300.It also has a door, like the corsair case. Also looks better thanks to having a consistent design. I mean, why would you guys make the front panel brushed aluminum and the side panels steel with a matte black finish? That looks horrible and it's not uniform at all. It is a deal breaker for me. It just looks like you guys ran out of aluminum or something. Most enthusiasts, I think, would've preferred full aluminum to the hot-swap rack you guys going on, and even then, Lian Li has a full aluminum case with the same features at the same price. Obviously they know how to keep their costs down.
I have the RocketFish Lian Li. I don't know if I'd ever have bought it unless it was on clearance for $50. I've never spent over $100 on a case. But as I get more and more into modding and overclocking, and into looks (I mean I look online and see some amazing ideas that I'd like to try myself), I wish I had a stellar cable management system. If this Lian Li case had a fantastic cable management system in place I wouldn't even be looking at this Corsair, especially at $300. I mean, you can mod the crap out of this case. For cable management, however, it's a little more difficult because it doesn't have a removable tray. Cutting the holes is still doable, but it would take quite a bit of work, and even if I did cut wire management holes, there is a ridiculously small amount of room on the other side of the tray, because this is not as wide of a case as the actual Lian Li it's based on. I love the full aluminum, and I know I could paint the inside black, but the Corsair is already done.
I know there's a lot of these "little" things I could do by hand myself, and probably do a decent job at it, but my time is extremely valuable. I don't get a lot of hours to spend drilling holes, painting, and cutting a case that's not set up the way I need it set up. I enjoy the system assembly, overclocking, software setup, and gaming much more, and so what precious time I get to "play" I want to be hooking up hoses for a watercooling setup, or installing that new CPU to overclock the crap out of, or testing out a new RAID setup ... not painting and cutting holes.
If this case gives me virtually everything I would want in a case, or mod myself, then it's saving me hours of work (plus the extra cost of a windowed side panel that I'd have to buy if I went for a Lian Li or Coolermaster case), then it will be worth $300 to me. I still think with so much cheaper steel rather than aluminum it should be $250 instead, though.