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 Anttech'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 Lanboy 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 uh the Super, it came with the smart
blue 350 W power supply. And then there was the Super Loy that came with that
weird uh grill at the front. And since then, there's been not a whole lot. But
this is it. Ant has revived the Lanboy
product line with the Lanboy Air. So, there you
go. That yellow is not quite the same as it looked. It's not quite as tonka like
as it looked on the picture on the front, but uh 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. Lanboy Air grounding. Okay, they
show you how to ground the case. That's good. How to mount your 2 and 1/2 in
SSDs. Okay. So, there's a little manual on that. How to install USB 3.0. Okay.
Cuz 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, Ant. All right. Now, I want to go through Let's take the case out of
the box. Uh, as is typical for Antech, the case is extremely well packaged.
Uses a good quality double wall box as
well as a high quality close 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 cuz I can't wait to get this
out of the box. I've been looking forward to uh 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 uh
ever. There we go. Wow. It actually looks a lot better in person than it
does in photos. I can see why Antech really wants to do uh a lot of video
coverage of this a lot. They've actually got a pretty good video on their site
right now that shows off the Lan Boyer. 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 uh I'm really glad they didn't because that
would have made for a very uh anticlimactic 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 120 mm fans right here at the
top of the case. And speaking of fans, the Landboy Air, although it comes
equipped with uh five 120 mil fans,
supports up to 15. And Anttech is really
encouraging users to use every fan as an
intake. And because the case is so
covered in mesh and airflow
nonrestrictive 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 buildup in a case like that. So, there you go. That's
why Anttech 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 going to have support for up to uh a dual 120 mm
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 uh 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 going to 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 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 and
1/2 in SSDs. So, you can do up to a RAID zero with two 2 and 1/2 in SSDs right
down there on the bottom of the case. Now, let's go ahead and This is going to
be kind of a long unboxing. I've got I've got that feeling that uh it's going
to 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 air flow. 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 Anttech design sticker there, which is very, very nice.
And then, uh, 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 4-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 got a 120 mil fan. We
got water cooling grommets, the aforementioned 8 PCI slots, as well as
your PSU modular mount. All right, let's
keep turning it around. I'll use the convenient carry handles because
remember this is a Landboy series case. It is designed to be moved around to
land presumably or to your mom's house
if uh 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 going to help me.
Thank you, cameraman, for contributing at the very last minute when 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. 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
120 mm antec twos two-speed fans mounted and the ones in the front are trioos.
The one in the back is a two-speed in case you were wondering. So that means you can switch them between high or low
air flow mode with this convenient low high switch. Oh, look at that. The
medium is actually uh there's still a spot for it, but it's like blanked out.
Okay, so that's not a triool. It is a two cool. Now you can mount up to
another two 120 mm fans with the pegs here and here and the holes here and
here. So Anttech includes presumably all the mounting screws you would need for
that. So that means you can throw up to four 120 mil 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. 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 Lanboy 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, Anttech has instructions on how to
ground out the case. So, you're going to want to attach that where Anttech 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. 0 compatible
motherboard. You've got USB 2.0 right there. Reset power uh 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 it's still not very popular. So, here we go. Let's have a
look at what we've got in terms of uh 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 however many hard drives. I think it's eight, but I could
be wrong. Here, let's count them. One, two, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Well, 8, 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 tool box here at the front. So, I'm going to go ahead and uh Oh, no,
wait. 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 tool box 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 Lanboy 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 uh
much better than the mockup that I had seen before. It feels quite solid
despite the fact that it's almost like a framework construction here. Like you
can 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 uh uh
other like connecting materials that are just giving it overall a pretty good
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 Anttech 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 and 1/4 in bays. It really is a unique design. Like
I almost wish Anttech had like a uh like
a stealth five and a quarter 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
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 tririccool fans. So you can
change the RPM in infinite increments
however you desire. And then there's that uh 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 in without
uh hard drives installed across from them or up to 12 in without or with hard
drives installed there. You can air mount the hard drives three different ways. USB 3.0 know 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 Anttech Lanboy
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? This Mac