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It had a tool-less door but a reversed internal layout, you open the right side panel (when looking from the front of the system)
there were tool-less releases for the HDD bays and disk drives, and it featured full-length brackets for add-in cards, with a sort of locking mechanism clamping over.
It also had this weird display on the top. you could play solitaire on it if you wanted.
bizarre little thing.
same as a few dimensions we still have sitting around here.. they're "BTX", the failed successor to ATX form factor.. it had some neat ideas, but would need a little tweaking if it were to support a 'modern' pc platform today.
It was called Windows SideShow I think. I’ve been eyeing an XPS 420 because I’ve never had a system with one before.