I bought a yellow one just to match my '92 Miata!
As for durability- I've been using a 44" US General for many years as a tool maker. Mine is stuffed full of solid tool steel tooling, such as vises, angle plates, magnetic chucks, etc., WAY more weight than wrenches and sockets. Still works perfectly. Other than snob appeal, it does the same thing as much, much more expensive boxes, and it held up to all day, every day commercial usage.
I'd have preferred blue, but I had to go black because of careful color matching that has to happen on and around it. Any other color would make it impossible.
The yellow and green are pretty darn cool, as well.
I constantly have to match various ages, eras, and factory blends of "computer beige". You'd better have a black surface and calibrated lighting for matching them, and then a pure white surface for judging the overall color itself.
Royal pain in the ****, in the end, but this thing cuts out so much of the headache it's amazing. Model M and Model F keyboards in the top drawer with an AT to PS/2 converter for the M, the parts and tools for the current project which MUST stay available... All right there, nearly impossible to lose, and hidden out of sight.
I can't put stuff away at the end of the day. That's not how restoring five things in twelve hours and prepping them for sale and shipment works. If you try that, you're out of business; it's too fast-paced. If it's not in an adjacent, dedicated container, it's taking up a bench or the floor.
Now two uber-expensive machines are right there with everything they need; a desktop on the bottom, and a tower on the top; and in about a month or so, the upper compartment will actually become a computer enclosure for the modern machine that needs to roll around, as well.
I hate laptops. It's about time I've got an invisible, out of the way computer. I build them for others frequently; but you know how it goes... The Mechanic's car is often duct tape and bailing wire.
