 What's the first thing you think of when you see this picture? If it's not Tonka or Lego, then you've probably seen the marketing for the Landboy Air already. This is Antec's latest and greatest chassis. It is fully modularized, and we're going to talk a lot in this unboxing about what exactly modularized means. And it is really unlike anything else we've seen on the market yet. So the Landboy Air, the Landboy series has been dead and buried, I thought, for the longest time. I actually owned an original Landboy, and then there was the Super... It came with the Smart Blue 350 watt power supply, and then there was the Super Landboy that came with that weird grill at the front. And since then, there's been not a whole lot. But this is it. Antec has revived the Landboy product line with the Landboy Air. So there you go. That yellow's not quite the same as it looked. It's not quite as Tonka-like as it looked on the picture on the front. But, okay, here we go. So the first thing we find in here is a little instruction manual. And based on all the things you can customize on this case, I'm going to go ahead and venture a guess that you're probably going to need it. Landboy Air grounding. Okay, they show you how to ground the case. That's good. How to mount your 2.5 inch SSDs. Okay, so there's a little manual on that. How to install USB 3.0. Okay, because it does have one USB 3.0 port at the front. As well as a quick product overview. So here's a little product overview, shows you a bunch of stuff about it. Okay. And then a little survey that you can take to win PC accessories. Thank you, Antec. Alright, now I want to go through... Let's take the case out of the box. As is typical for Antec, the case is extremely well packaged. Uses a good quality double wall box. As well as a high quality closed cell foam packing material. So you can see that's not going to be a problem in terms of shipping. And then I wanted to go through all the stuff it says here, and maybe I'll point at the case while I do it. Or something. Honestly, I'm a little scattered because I can't wait to get this out of the box. I've been looking forward to playing with one of these in person since I first heard about this case. Just because, like I said, it is so completely different from anything we've seen on the case market ever. There we go. Wow, it actually looks a lot better in person than it does in photos. I can see why Antec really wants to do a lot of video coverage of this. They've actually got a pretty good video on their site right now that shows off the Landboy Air. So first thing we see here, carrying handles. Even with a fully loaded computer in there, there's no way these are going to break off. And I'm really glad they didn't because that would have made for a very anti-climactic test of the Landboy Air. So they fold down just like that. And then let's have a look at the back here. So you can see you've got support for dual 120mm fans right here at the top of the case. And speaking of fans, the Landboy Air, although it comes equipped with five 120mm fans, supports up to 15. And Antec is really encouraging users to use every fan as an intake. And because the case is so covered in mesh and airflow non-restrictive materials, you can see the whole other side of the case is completely mesh, what that means is by using every fan as an intake, you can create positive pressure inside the case, which means that air will naturally blow out of anywhere that you don't have an intake fan. So what that means is you're able to keep dust out of your case because everywhere where there isn't a fan drawing air in, there's air just blowing out of all the little nooks and crannies of the case. So it's very, very difficult to get dust build up in a case like that. So there you go. That's why Antec encourages you to take advantage of the positive airflow design of this particular chassis. Now the finish on this is just phenomenal actually. Look at that. It's a very glossy black finish on the top of the case. Looks like we're gonna have support for up to a dual 120mm radiator here in the top, although don't quote me on that, I'm not 100% sure. Now in the front of the case, this looks like it should be something. What is that? Okay. Well, why don't we run through these marketing bullet points so that we can get a clearer idea of what we're dealing with here. So the modularity, optical drives can be mounted in three different orientations. You can actually mount an optical drive facing out this side of the case, or you can mount it facing out the front, or you can mount your optical drive facing out the other side of the case. Same thing goes for your hard drives. The hard drives use a new system called air mounting, and I'm gonna go ahead and take this off. These panels are modular like many aspects of this case. So the hard drives use a new system called an air mount, which you can see is like a rubber elastic thing, and then you screw your hard drives in, and what that allows you to do is reduce vibration, and it also allows you to mount it also in any orientation. So your hard drives can be mounted with the connectors facing your motherboard, facing this way, or facing towards the other side of the case. So that's pretty cool too. So you can mount hard drives, optical drives, whichever orientation you want, but wait, there's more. You can actually move around the optical drives to be down here, or you can move them here, and you can put hard drives in the top if you feel like it. Yeah, you can actually customize where all that stuff sits. Down here in the very bottom, you can see there are two spots for 2.5-inch SSDs, so you can do up to a RAID 0 with two 2.5-inch SSDs, right down there in the bottom of the case. Now let's go ahead. This is gonna be kind of a long unboxing. I've got that feeling that it's gonna take a lot to cover this particular chassis. Okay, modular motherboard mounts. Yeah, okay, we'll get into those a little bit later. Okay, so we've taken off the side panel now. So here, we'll have a look at the construction of the side panel. As I mentioned, there's a lot of mesh on here. That's very conducive to good airflow. It's got metal pieces here, but it's a mostly plastic construction. So what that means is with the metal mesh and the metal bars, it actually retains a good degree of rigidity. Okay, so then you've got your little Antec Design sticker there, which is very, very nice. And then, yeah, okay, well, we took that off. Let's keep on going then, shall we? Here is the back of the motherboard tray. So the motherboard tray is modular. Let's find out exactly what that means. You can, ah, yes, you can move the motherboard tray down. So you see these screws here, here, here, here, and here. You can move the motherboard tray down to the bottom, and then you can actually move the power supply mount up to the top, if you'd prefer that. You don't have to use a bottom-mounted power supply. That's what they mean by modular. And the motherboard tray, I should also mention, does support up to eight PCI expansion slots. So that means you can mount a four-way SLI motherboard in this chassis. Once again, it wouldn't be customizable and modular if you can't mount whatever you want in it, am I right? Okay, back of the case, we've got a 120-mil fan, we've got water-cooling grommets, the aforementioned eight PCI slots, as well as your PSU modular mount. Alright, let's keep turning it around. I'll use the convenient carry handles. Because remember, this is a LAN Boy series case. It is designed to be moved around, to LANs, presumably, or to your mom's house, if she has a faster internet connection than you and you want to download something quickly. The point is, you can move the computer around. I don't want to hear about it. Okay, so I'm just undoing screws here. I really wish I'd remembered my screwdriver, but I never do. That's how I roll. Cameraman's gonna help me. Thank you, Cameraman, for contributing at the very last minute. And there's only one more screw to remove. Cameraman can't even do it because he has Mac hands, and they're not strong enough. I've been using a Mac all day. Oh, wow, that one is pretty tough. Okay, well, give me a minute off camera, then. So we've opened up the other side panel. You can see here, there are two 120mm Antec 2-speed fans mounted. And the ones in the front are Tri-Cool. The one in the back is a 2-speed, in case you were wondering. So that means you can switch them between high or low airflow mode with this convenient low-high switch. Oh, look at that, the medium is actually, there's still a spot for it, but it's like blanked out. Okay, so that's not a Tri-Cool, it is a 2-Cool. Now, you can mount up to another two 120mm fans with the pegs here and here and the holes here and here. So Antec includes presumably all of the mounting screws you would need for that. So that means you can throw up to four 120mm fans on the side panel. You can orient them like this. And then you can put the side panel on. I hope. Now that I've said it, I hope you can't, no, you can't. Okay, so you orient it like this and then you just put the fans wherever you want. Okay. Let's keep it rolling here. We'll keep looking at all the different aspects of the Landboy Air. So here's our front panel connectors, which are secured with a little twist tie. And let's go ahead and have a look at those. So because this is not a very conventional chassis, as I mentioned, Antec has instructions on how to ground out the case. So you're going to want to attach that where Antec tells you, please do that. You don't want static buildup on your case because that is bad. Static in computers, bad. Not grounding, very, very bad. Okay, here is USB 3.0. All right, so you run that out the back of the case. You plug it into the back of your USB 3.0 compatible motherboard. You've got USB 2.0 right there. Reset power, hard drive LED as well as a power LED. Then you've got front panel audio. No firewire. Firewire is, I mean, does anyone use firewire anyway? I think I said that once and then I had a bunch of comments on the video, oh, I use firewire. Yeah, I know, someone does, but still not very popular. So here we go. Let's have a look at what we've got in terms of random mounting accessories. So it looks like I'll have to take out the power supply mount for that. All right, I pulled out the power supply mount, which as I mentioned before, you can move up to the top should you so desire. And then I've also got the box here, which I was surprised to find contained, not motherboard mounting screws or anything else like that, but rather only more air mounts. So they've gone and they've thrown in one air mount for you just so you get the idea. But then there are enough air mounts here to mount up to an additional, I don't know how many hard drives. I think it's eight, but I could be wrong. Here, let's count them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, well, eight, nine. I guess you can mount as many as nine hard drives if you feel like it, but then you'd have no optical drives. So it's completely up to you, it's modular. And then it took me a little while here to figure out where are the mounting screws. Well, they're in a little toolbox here at the front. So I'm going to go ahead and, oh, no way, you have to unscrew it. Oh, okay. Well, I don't know how to get the toolbox out now, but yeah, okay, here. There's a toolbox in the front of the case, and that little box is going to hold all of your extra mounting hardware for whatever it is you could possibly need to mount in the Landboy Air, and you could never lose it because it'll always be there. And I think that's getting pretty close to everything there is to talk about. Here, why don't you just get some more internal shots of the case. Overall, the fit and finish of it is much better than the mock-up that I had seen before. It feels quite solid, despite the fact that it's almost like a framework construction here, like you can see there's holes in the case, like there's not a whole lot to it. But because they're using these solid metal square bars, it has a lot of rigidity to it, and then they've got mostly things like metal mesh or other connecting materials that are just giving it overall a pretty good strength to it. So I think that's pretty much all there is to say, but no, no, come have a look at the front. Come have a look at the front. We haven't looked at the front enough. Here, okay. So at the front, we find a bunch more interesting stuff. We find a great Antec shiny logo there, which I think looks terrific. And then we also find buttons. So there's our reset switch, our power switch, USB 2.0, front audio, as well as USB 3.0. We just haven't had enough of a look at the 5.25 inch bay. It really is a unique design. Like I almost wish Antec had like a stealth 5.25 inch bay cover that looks like this, because it's really kind of cool looking. It stands out, fits with the aesthetic of the whole case. Like I said before, these can be moved around. So you see these extra mounting holes here at the front. You can, what the? Cameraman, don't get distracted. You can see these extra mounting holes here at the front, so you can move these up, move these three down, move them around however you want. And these at the front are stepless adjustable Tri-Cool fans. So you can change the RPM in infinite increments, however you desire. And then there's that, yeah, that screws in. So that's that toolbox at the front. Let me just see if I missed any points. Yes, it supports video cards up to 16 inches without hard drives installed across from them, or up to 12 inches without, or with hard drives installed there. You can air mount the hard drives three different ways. USB 3.0, built-in handles, infinite cooling up to 15 fans, plus a top mount for water cooling. And I think we've pretty much covered it. Thank you for having a look at the Antec Landboy Air with us. And I hope you have enjoyed it. Ah, cable management! Here on the back of the motherboard tray, you will find little hoops for routing cables. You will also find adequate space between the side panel over here and the motherboard tray to mount even thick 24-pin cables. And now I'm done. Cameraman wants me to do something else. He wants to see the bottom. Who looks at the bottom of a case? Let's Mac people.