Teenage Engineering is making a gift of a free laptop chassis, nevertheless it’s already ‘bought out’

Teenage Engineering, the hip Swedish tech/design model that makes of all (and a conveyable sport machine with a ) has constructed one other laptop chassis. And it’s free! However you can also’t get one, proper now no less than. (Sorry about that.)

Described by its maker as a “small kind issue, mini-ITX laptop case,” the is fabricated from a single sheet of semi-transparent plastic with snap hooks and dwelling hinges for screw-free meeting. The engineering wizards at Teenage Engineering got down to design the “most cost-effective laptop case on the planet,” and because of its deliberately minimalist design they had been ultimately in a position to decide on a value of $0.

The DIY laptop case accommodates a mini-ITX motherboard, an SFX energy provide and a dual-slot graphics card of as much as 180mm in dimension. Given the comically inexpensive nature of the product, it most likely goes with out saying that you just don’t get another PC parts included.

The Laptop-2 just isn’t the primary product of this sort that Teenage Engineering has put out. It was preceded by 2021’s , which was equally design-led however fabricated from aluminum and notably not free. The brand new “laptop case you possibly can’t purchase” is restricted to 1 per particular person and Teenage Engineering has already cleared out its preliminary inventory. You possibly can to be notified if extra instances are launched on the corporate’s web site. We’ve additionally reached out to Teenage Engineering to seek out out if this was only a restricted launch or in the event that they intend to usually preserve the Laptop-2 in inventory.