Antec Lanboy Air Review

👤by David Mitchelson  Comments 📅03-10-10

Interior (2)

With regards to mounting devices inside the Lanboy Air - 5.25" optical drives are mounted a fairly standard by sliding the drive in and securing with screws. Drives in this area can be mounted in a variety of 3 different orientations - facing the front (standard) facing the side (the angle the photo below is showing) and facing the alternating side.

5.25" drive mounting area

Beneath this is an area of vast space, unlike any other case on the market the Lanboy Air allows for 3.5" and 2.5" devices to be suspended by brackets that hook onto the case structure. These brackets have elasticated arms allowing the drive to float as it where.

Brackets that allow 3.5"/2.5" drives to suspend in the air

The inside rear end of the case features an LED ready 120mm rear exhaust fan. This uses a molex connector and as mentioned in the previous section can operate at low or high speed.

Rear 120mm exhaust fan

One of the significant features of the Lanboy Air is the ability to swap things around. The motherboard tray and PSU cage can be swapped round and moved. So by default the PSU will be mounted at the bottom, but if you want to you can move the cage to the upper section whilst moving the motherboard tray further down.

To remove the motherboard tray the rear of the case needs to be removed, this is very easy to do - it just requires the removal of four screws.

The rear of the case removed

With the rear of the case removed the motherboard tray can be slid out as soon as one screw is removed that holds it in place. This is an excellent idea, it makes building systems so much quicker. With so many options its quite obvious the Lanboy Air is a very functional, practical case - a modders dream.