I like that design too. An advantage of this design is it can remain vertical with a heavy CPU heatsink (the XTIA needs to be laid down). I also suspect the graphics card will be cooler with more airspace (I intend to put this hypothesis to the test soon). It's also not clear if they support attaching hard drives? And lastly, I anticipate this one will be cheaper all things considered (e.g. not requiring an SFX power supply) and US-made.

Thanks a lot :) I'm actually working on other concepts that don't sit on the table. This is just the beginning.

The name is inspired from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_monolith

I know lol. I wanted to keep the images high-res so you can zoom in and see what's going on. GitHub hasn't bothered me (yet...)

You can use https://squoosh.app for easy and effective image compression. Sometimes I can shave off 80-90% of the size without a noticeable difference in image quality.

I live with a long-haired person and we haven't had such issues -- follow your heart!

Less desk space, mostly. And there's something visually appealing about having the CPU in the center of the board.

Same. Whoever wants to do a thermal review (complete with IR imagery) gets a Monolith on the house.

Compressed air is your friend.

Mesh solves a problem created by Big Case Fan who want you believe that you need a case to prevent dust from entering your computer.

I kid. But honestly my quasi-passively cooled setup has been super easy to clean.