What do you even call computers that are horizontal???

[Marszala]

I cannot remember for the life of me what they're actually called.

The word is similar to Flatbed. But all I get when I search it up are photo copiers and printers!

They look like this: https://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/08/22/9dba531f-29b4-11e4-9e6a-00505685119a/thumbnail/770x433/9db485637300373b648bf162b7313c7f/delloptiplex7551.jpg

[r.linder]

Most cases of that design to sit horizontally are HTPCs.

[Washell]

Desktop.

[Marszala]

Originally posted by Escorve:

Most cases of that design to sit horizontally are HTPCs.

so an IBM XT 5150 is an HTPC?

[hawkeye]

If you mean the ones you sit your monitor on, wherever I have worked in IT they are called desktops. Staff had a desktop or laptop.

Never heard of a HTPC. Google says that's a home theatre pc.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Murdoc:

Originally posted by Escorve:

Most cases of that design to sit horizontally are HTPCs.

so an IBM XT 5150 is an HTPC?

It can be because it fits that form factor that makes it fit well in a home theatre environment, so that's what it would be described as nowadays, but as others have said, they were originally just called desktops.
Now, however, things have changed because that form factor is part of HTPC cases, and there is another form factor called ATX Desktop that are more cubic (or are moderately tall and wide rather than tall and short or short and very wide) whereas HTPCs are rectangular.

[upcoast]

Flat top desktop other than just a desktop was the name I was used to hearing
Nothing all that mysterious about it really

[hawkeye]

https://www.dell.com/en-au/work/shop/business-pcs-desktop-computers/sf/optiplex-desktops

[_I_]

desktop case, instead of tower case

[SimicEngineer]

Originally posted by Washell:

Desktop.

This is the right answer, even though it's a bit confusing since towers are also cases that house "desktop computers".

Some desktop designs are marketed as HTPC cases, but the HTPC category also includes designs that don't follow the traditional desktop pattern, such as SilverStone Milo, Fractal Design Node, etc..

[Harry Gumdropzap]

they are called HTPC cases
which that guy said above, it stands for home theatre PC
HTPC cases usually are horizontal

[DevaVictrix]

They were called desktop pc... as opposed to tower pc. Everyone now calls tower pcs "desktop" as opposed to laptop!

If that was a HTPC it would be the ugliest ive ever seen!

Ive never thought to look into buying a desktop case but they were great for booting the height of your monitor. I use my subwoofer at the moment but still get neck ache!

[Washell]

Originally posted by DevaVictrix:

I use my subwoofer at the moment but still get neck ache!

That would be due to the windchill from the subwoofer.

Originally posted by Barnacle Boy:

they are called HTPC cases

HTPC cases are their own class and not what the OP is asking about. A regular sized case that sits horizontally is universally referred to as a desktop PC, which can be verified by visiting the cases section of any site you care to name that sells PC components.

[_I_]

Originally posted by Barnacle Boy:

they are called HTPC cases
which that guy said above, it stands for home theatre PC
HTPC cases usually are horizontal

this is not a htpc case
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gYcAAOSw6ntZkFjy/s-l1600.jpg

[DevaVictrix]

nor these :-)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ibm+286&t=brave&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

[Obsessive Power]

Originally posted by DevaVictrix:

nor these :-)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ibm+286&t=brave&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

I concur. Many of the first PC machines I sat in front of in the early 90's looked like some of those, floppy disk drives and all. In fact, when I first used a PC they didn't even have CD-ROM drives. Man I'm old!

And the form factor was and still is Desktop.