I'd have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I'm a sucker for 70's designed electronics.
PS2 slim deserves a mention, I feel.
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the atari 2600 looks like it could take you back to the future with enough jigawatts
If we're talking strictly design, my personal favorite is a generic fat PS2, probably tied with my model 1(?) Sega Genesis (none of the things like 32x or CD, which I desperately want to get some day).
If we're talking like PC with OS, the 90s Amiga lineup because I think the Amiga Workbench 3 line and the icons they used look absolutely beautiful. Definitely would love to get my hands on a 1200, but they're expensive. So no getting into that hobby for me just yet.
Funny thing about the PS2 Fat design: it's an Atari design. It was a project for the Falcon 040 that was never released.
About the A1200, I think there's a niche for Raspberry Pi cases that look like vintage computers. Imagine having a case that looks like an A1200, another one that looks like a Falcon, the Sony HitBit, ...
NGL, that fine-wood version of the Atari looked so slick. Too bad I only got the cheap plastic one.
Does anyone here know the thought behind the wooden front trim fascia look?
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I would choose the Super Famicom. It just looks so sleek. I don't know why they changed it with the SNES, it looks ugly.
It just looks so sleek. For me, it was the future of gaming.
Dreamcast and the first Playstation.
For pure old school retro it would be the old Compaq suitcase-sized laptop PC.
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Technically neither a console nor a PC (in the IBM-compatible sense), but the Commodore PET has a certain kind of 70s futurism about it.
Note the integrated tape deck for all your storage needs.
The keyboard pictured, while interesting looking, is a complete POS. Later PETs had a more usable keyboard with a better layout.
Edit: I don't think that red button at the bottom right is stock. It's almost certainly a hardware reset button, which on the Commodore machines is typically done by shorting a couple pins on a user expansion port.
One more vote with OP. That Atari is a nice looking machine.