Mbox feet

[cheekypaul]

May i just state, for the record, that i don't like the Mbox sticky out feet. in fact, the ergonomics could all do with improving. There are so many more portable and more powerful boxes out there, i know they don't all work, but i would like Digidesign to be the absolute must have interfaces.

[Arvid TomaykoPeters]

agreed. They makes it hard to fit in my pack to take places!

[stereo type]

OOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!! This is a pet peave of mine. I've stated this somewhere on the DUC before. It would be so much better if it were just simply square or rectangular. And it's not only that it doesn't pack well.....I never seem to have a good place to sit the thing no matter where I'm at. If it were rectangular, I could at least sit my laptop on top of it. Heaven forbid you have a crowded desk and need to move the thing.......the feet grab hold of everything in their path! I think Batman had a device on his utility belt similar to the Mbox for hooking a rope when he and Robin needed to scale the side of a building........

I have however been able to put it inside my M-Audio laptop/Oxygen 8 bag. Since I have a small 12" powerbook, the laptop will slide far enough down into the rear pouch that the Mbox will rest on top of it UPSIDE-DOWN. This enables the damned feet to protrude over the top of the pouch rather than poke holes in the lining of the bag.

I remember thinking, at seeing the feet for the first time, that the designer for the Mbox was either Bozo the Clown or a penguin.

I've considered taking mine to a machine shop and filing the feet off.

[Super Seven]

I agree....although I love my Mbox....and don't drag it around. It is almost a half rack size.....how hard can it be to make it a half rack? Then I could get a half rack comp and bingo.