My absolutely biggest wish??? ALL-WHITE-EVERYTHING.
Maybe it's because my eyes are getting old, I don't have the huge, bright-lit workspaces the youngsters seem to have these days, therefore, squinting and bending over cases with sharp edges does damage to both my eyes and back (even if only temporary), peering into black on black connectors and dark motherboards even inside a white case while trying to manipulate my large and increasingly less sensitive fingers to angle that connector JUST right in the hope it'll mate and connect without bending anything, holding my iPhone over the area so I have the slightest chance to see what I'm doing, with its flashlight (I know, I should just get an extremely bright headlamp and strap....)... but since the dawn of my computer building time, the next computer after my Northgate 486 in other words, when I vowed never again to rely upon computer assemblers to make the right mix of components and quality I wanted..... I've suffered, and suffered greatly, from two things:
1. BLACK CONNECTORS. BLACK WIRES. DARK SPACES.
2. WIRES THAT ARE ALIVE WITH THE DESIRE TO TANGLE THEMSELVES TOGETHER.
Oh, there's a third thing: connectors that guarantee they will lock into each other, thus making it nigh impossible to untangle the wires without playing with unwrapping the wires from the connectors.
I realize this is not just an ASUS thing, by a long shot; but it would be a dream come true if the assembly of a PC were made EASY, and not at all in the technical sense, though that always helps, but in the purely ERGONOMIC sense.
I realize engineering is an art of refining the amount of materials used over time in the space available, and constant optimization of use of both space and time is a fundamental engineering principle. But we have reached a point where pushing such optimizations meant to be handled by clumsy human hands, bleary geeky eyes, weak backs and increasingly numb fingers is simply, morally, WRONG. 😉
We are weak. We are not all 20-somethings, especially at the prices charged these days. We are clumsy, stupid humans, even the sharpest of us, who need a lot of wiggle room and finger space to try to get things done.
I realize the Prime Directive of engineering is that There Is Only One Correct Way. You feel this from the best components you're working with. They don't kinda fit or ambiguously align: there is only one way to get it right.
But that one way has to be just a little more obvious to people than it is now, even with all the vast progress made even on that front.
Thanks for listening!
OH! P.S. Simplest possible uplift: __Provide a free, super-bright headlamp with strap inside every top-quality motherboard kit! Either that or a big warning in 24-point font at the start of the manual that the user shouldn't even dream of doing anything until they get one. __
