Actually the handle doesn't really seem useless. As someone with multiple PCs I often find myself rotating and/or moving a box to gain access to the slots at the back or to plug something into the powerbar, which is most often behind the PC.
The handle is useful if you need to move PC's from office to office or cube to cube regularly as well, not just within a workstation. I work for a college, and it's not unusual for us to have to move PC's around campus (new setup, machine needs to be swapped or reimaged, ect).
We're actually an IBM/Lenovo shop, and most IBM'S back to the P2's have had some sort of handle - although on some of the newer models it's part of the plastic faceplate, so if you try to carry it by the handle the faceplate falls off.
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Actually the handle doesn't really seem useless. As someone with multiple PCs I often find myself rotating and/or moving a box to gain access to the slots at the back or to plug something into the powerbar, which is most often behind the PC.
The handle is useful if you need to move PC's from office to office or cube to cube regularly as well, not just within a workstation. I work for a college, and it's not unusual for us to have to move PC's around campus (new setup, machine needs to be swapped or reimaged, ect).
We're actually an IBM/Lenovo shop, and most IBM'S back to the P2's have had some sort of handle - although on some of the newer models it's part of the plastic faceplate, so if you try to carry it by the handle the faceplate falls off.