Okay, so we've got the Q7 from Le and Lee. Our shipment finally arrived. It
was delayed by the uh the typhoon they had over there. And if you haven't seen
it already in our forum, we have a thing where you can uh donate your forum
points to uh help us aid the uh the sufferers over there. So, we are making
a donation as a company. So, check that out in our forum. Anyway, here's the
case. It's a mini ITX enclosure from Le and Lee that I thought would be uh
pretty interesting to people because it's probably the most stylish miniITX
enclosure, at least in photos. I haven't seen it in person yet, that we've ever
seen. So, let's just get it out of the wrapping here. Let's see. It comes with
uh an installation guide where you can see that we've got uh sort of a layout
of the case itself. Motherboard installation, hard drive installation,
power supply installation. Anyway, so let's have a look at this case. So,
basically, we've got a 5 and a/4 in bay, power and reset switches, two front USB
ports, and then if we go around to uh
the side here, you can see you've got lots of ventilation holes, and the side
panel is actually removed by taking off
six screws. So, I'm not I'm not really
sure how much I like to see this kind of system for removing a side panel. With
uh with so many other manufacturers going toolless and even Lee and Lee
going toolless across a lot of their case line, it seems like kind of a step
backwards to have such a such a clunky
system for this, but I mean the case has a lot of other things going for it. So,
let's talk a little bit about that. So, first of all, you can install one 3 and
1/2 in drive. You can install one 5 and 1/4 in drive as we saw in the front. But
the neatest thing about this case, which I will get to as soon as I have these
screws off, hopefully you're planning to just put this together once and uh not
take it apart again after that. So, here we go.
And come on off. There we There we go. Oh,
don't get away. All right. So, there's the uh you can see the finishing is is
immaculate, just like you would expect from any Lean Lee product. Very very
nice. Nice thick gauge aluminum even on such an inexpensive enclosure. So once
we get inside, you can see through the back this accepts a fullsized ATX power
supply unlike so many other of the microATX cases on the market. So that is
a really unique selling point for this case. So let's take out the accessory
box and let's have a look at what we get in there. So, this is going to be your
mounting hardware and uh let's see. A couple cable management pieces, some
rubber grommets for mounting your hard drive. Uh some thumb screws. Oh, six
thumb screws. No, no, I can't tell what these are for. We'll get to that later,
I guess, then. And then on the inside, you can see we've got uh Lean Le's
rubber grommet mounting hard drive thing here. You've got your ITX
uh back plate on the back there, so you can mount your ITX motherboard there.
You've got your front USB cables here. You've got your power and LED uh
switches and lights here. And then up at the top, that's where you mount your
optical drive. So, let's go around to the back. So, you've got one expansion
port, one little wireless antenna slot that you could potentially plug
something into, and then you've got your IO panel, and then we go around to the
other side, and it's just a plain plain
black enclosure. Actually, the whole thing is very stylish, very cool
looking.