Gigabyte MIB Reinvents The Desktop PC Comments

no love for anything remotely powerful these days. it wasn't so long back in the old days you used to pay for what you get. nowadays it's "pay different sorts of money, get the same netbook/nettop/underpowered machine focused on style alone.

They couldn't do an upright one because that wouldn't have looked slim! More practically, they may have found that the weight of the monitor was making the ITX case unstable and it'd be limited to a small monitor or would need a heavy backplate.

I agree that made a mess of it though, whether the case was horizontal or vertical it should have had a thin protruding bit to the edge of the monitor for the DVD drive, card reader and front mounted ports and then been full size ATX or mATX behind.