Tech companies have been going all out with the interesting colourways this year, and it looks like matcha green is the new in-thing when it comes to gaming PC cases. I for one am glad we're moving away from stark black and white designs, as opposed to clinging to the RGB fuelled cyberpunk aesthetic we've been carrying on with for years, but what's going on with this matcha green PC case trend?
Milling about the show floor at Computex over the past week, it's clear there's less of a focus on boring black PC parts than we've seen in the past. Between the gaudy origami PC cases from InWin I spotted, and the plethora of incredible case mods scattered around the booths, it looks like the monotone monoliths of yesteryear could seriously end up taking a back seat against a wealth of colourful goodies.
Of course, colourful bits are often a clever way that companies draw people in at shows like Computex, and often they never come to fruition being written off as «show colours». I've been assured the ones I've seen, however, will actually be making it to market.
Some vibrant and others more on the pastel side, there's now so much to choose from when it comes to PC parts. In particular, matcha green has made an appearance at almost every booth I've visited this year.
Thermaltake's booth was very green indeed. Not only does the Ceres 300 TG and Tower 200 (the company's refresh of the Tower 100) come in Matcha Green, there's also a Turquoise and Racing Green option among the standard black and white. I'd have called the latter Forest green, actually, which would have made it all the more appropriate considering the swathes of green surrounding the host city of Taipei.
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