google surfaced this image from some site that scraped it from somewhere else and i cannot for the life of me figure out what the FUCK it could have meant

google surfaced this image from some site that scraped it from somewhere else and i cannot for the life of me figure out what the FUCK it could have meant
Is that an SGI behind that box? This is "computer" or something
Source appears to be this Japanese review/blog post. On the last page, the author reveals that they bought the board with the intent of retrofitting it into the O2 chassis.
excellent work! I could not track it and was losing my mind
Google Lens turned up nothing, because of course it didn't. TinEye turned up exactly one result, which, fortunately, was the OC.
And see here am I, the odd man out who can't see an O2 without thinking of Erwin from User Friendly.
This is the sneakiest fucking picture I've ever seen, it's like the nerd version of something with spooky eyes in a shadow off to the side, but way more subtle.
The O2 and O2+ definitely had personality.
It's such a shame that the conformal drive cover is the part most likely to break on those machines.
the caption more correctly translates to 「a long time ago, the "O2" was a charismatic graphics workstation; nowadays, people call it "electric pot" and "rice cooker", and it makes me sad」, and i can't tell which one is funnier
fun fact: that atom 230 powered ITX board is what powers my nas wich at this point is in the 1000's of days uptime, runs windows 7 because im a freak and networking sharing was a bit easyer for me to figure out (i can also remote into it and run software if i want to)