Hardware · HW·08
A small desktop machine that reports what it is doing on its own front panel, rather than only inside an operating system.
A small form factor desktop in a machined aluminium chassis, specified on thermal behaviour under sustained load and on acoustic floor rather than on headline benchmark figures.
How it is run
The brief starts with what the machine sounds like on a desk at hour three, not what it scores in a thirty second run. The front panel exists so the state of the machine is readable without opening anything, and it is specified as part of the chassis rather than added to it.
The system
The core carries the computer. The seats carry the ports, the power and the position on the desk. What actually changes between a desk, a monitor arm and a bag is rarely the processor.
Memory is socketed, the drive is a full length M.2 2280, and the radio is a card rather than a solder joint. The parts that fall behind first are the parts that come out.
Every seat carries a standard USB4 host port beside the HOB contact. Undocked it is still a dock for any laptop, including after we stop making cores. The seat geometry is published rather than held closed.
Acoustic floor under sustained load is written into the order and read on the front panel. A machine that is quiet in a review and loud an hour later has not met the specification.
A concept drawing, not a shipping specification. Nothing in this line has been manufactured under the mark, and no figure here has been measured on hardware.
Concept · runs with HOB AI
Every line is drawn around the same assistant. It is asked for out loud, it resolves what it can on the device in front of you, and it answers with the thing rather than a conversation about the thing.
HOB AI · on device
A concept drawing, not a shipping specification. Nothing in this line has been manufactured under the mark.
Line manual
The standing orders for this line, in six pages. Drag a page across, or use the arrows.
A desktop is judged here on what it does after an hour, not in a thirty second benchmark. The chassis, the cooling and the front panel are specified together, because a quiet machine is a geometry problem before it is a component list.
Rendered, not photographed. No unit of this line has been manufactured under the mark, so nothing here is a picture of a finished product.
Finish palette · drawn intent, not a supplier sample
Chassis volume, thermal budget and what the front panel is for are fixed before a supplier is approached.
Cooling geometry, panel materials and the display’s refresh behaviour are written into the order, not left to the factory.
Units are sampled on noise under sustained load, and on whether the front panel agrees with the operating system.
Funding
No round is open and nothing is collected on this site. The form registers interest and reaches the same mailbox as a partner enquiry. Terms, instrument and any figures would be agreed in writing before money moves.
This form does not take payment and no money is collected on this site. It records what you are interested in and reaches the same mailbox as a partner enquiry. Any terms would be put in writing before anything is committed.
