[chc]

> home built PC market is probably larger than the entire Mac market. I don't have any figures to back this up but based on Windows' market share and my experience, 20% of PC's I've seen over the years are home built.

How does this make the release of a chassis relevant to the release of a Mac Pro? The chassis doesn't even have the interesting characteristics of the Mac Pro chassis. I was hoping it might be something like that, but alas. The fact that a market is sizable doesn't make it universally relevant.

> There is going to be some overlap.

There is bound to be some overlap between Mac users and people who eat at McDonalds (both groups are large enough that it's inevitable), but that overlap isn't enough to make comments about McDonalds relevant to stories about the Mac Pro.

[csmuk]

I think it's justifiable derision on the basis the box is pretty as well.

The market side is interesting because the case depicted is probably a more relevant release. It'll see it's way into many more OEM and home built computers than the Mac Pro.

[MrScruff]

While clearly looks are subjective, and Lian Li cases are better looking than many of their competitors, I really doubt the linked case is going to find itself in any design museums.

As for sales numbers, I've no idea how many units of this case they will be selling. If it's more than ~300,000 units a year then that would indeed be more than the Mac Pro from a couple of years ago. Of course we might expect the new model to sell better.