Why glass?

[DHR]

Honestly hadn't thought on it before but my wife asked me earlier, why do many cases now use tempered glass on both sides?

I understand there are more that are now reversible, in those cases it makes sense but if you have to have the machine on the left, you'd be looking at little more than the backplate.

Presuming it's cheaper to use tempered glass now instead of metal? Or hangover from the original ATX standard?

Anyone done anything creative in this space?

 

[mattyfez]

I guess it's an economy of scale thing...easier to make 2 identical glass pannels than one side Aluminium and one side glass? easier tooling production lines at the factory etc?

Personally I'd rather just have aluminium panels but the kids love thier flashing lights and whatnot I guess, so we are stuck with glass everything.

And you can't hide your lazy cable management behind a nice solid metal side panel!

Lian li have done something cool--- glass rear window, but extra interior metal panels to hide the snakes nest of cables, lol