In decorating, we do not just get select any chair (HP, Dell) or only minimalist chairs (Apple), we find one that fits the character of the room.  Yet sitting prominently on our desks are the ugliest and most highly branded contraptions we own.   In an office where we typically hide all traces of the technology, computers are outside this rule.

These images are provoking  because they question whether a computer has too look modern.    The Victorians celebrated technology making an elaborate reflection of their ideals which is why I find these Steampunk items so interesting.  Now someone has reinvoked those ideas by rebranding them.  This is not redecorating, it is rebranding.   It brings all the contextual values of the Victorian era to your desktop.