I’ve said it many times before: when I build my desktop PCs, I want them to look like little refrigerators. No glass, no RGB. But I must admit, this NextGear design is incredibly appealing. With its Clear Shift case, the tempered glass panels on the side and front can shift from transparent to frosted in about one second.
Even at its most opaque, the system lets a fair bit of light through, showing off RGB parts even if it won’t actually let you see what they are. Promotional material (machine translated) refers to the two glass settings as “clear mode” and “stealth mode.” The idea appears to be that you can get a slightly more professional look when necessary—for, I don’t know, a video meeting or something. This feature doesn’t need a justification if you ask me, though. It’s just cool.
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The Mouse-jp.co.jp store (spotted by VideoCardz.com) is selling various configurations of the NextGear pre-built. They start at 164,800 yen (about $1,070 USD) for a Ryzen 5 4500 and RTX 3050, all the way up to a Ryzen 7 7700 and Radeon RX 9060XT for 264,800 yen (about $1,719 USD). That seems a little understated in terms of power for such a fancy case, which, unfortunately, isn’t available as a separate purchase. Maybe we’ll see it pop up at some point.