Shell Vs. Case for naming

[Derpologist]

Okay so I'm having a bit of an argument with a female friend of mine. She is very fluent with PC things and knows what she's talking about. We were just in a Skype call where I was working on a computer case. She asked what it was (because she couldn't see it very well) and I said: 'Working on a computer case mod' to which she responded: 'You mean shell?'

 

Long story short, she's convinced the name for a computer enclosure is shell. She told me to prove that it was called a case (without using Wikipedia because there's a whole article on that) so I figured, why not LTT?

 

Thanks you guys!

[Mixzzz]

Officially I think its called computer case but really I call it however I want it.

[Dzzope]

Depends where she's from.. It's called a shell in Russia and some eastern European countries.

 

 

@Derpologist follow your own topics.

[MattTheMayor]

the section on this thread is CASE and power supply lol.

 

i never heard anybody say shell

[Tedster]

It's a case, not a shell.

 

Also would this be cheating? (Full-page screenshot of the Wikipedia page you were talking about, but you're not going to Wikipedia or anything to access it):

[f5alcon]

case, every major computer manufactuer's documentation call it a case. 

[Dzzope]

the section on this thread is CASE and power supply lol.

 

i never heard anybody say shell

 

It's a case, not a shell.

 

Also would this be cheating? (Full-page screenshot of the Wikipedia page you were talking about, but you're not going to Wikipedia or anything to access it):

 

case, every major computer manufactuer's documentation call it a case. 

 

 

Depends where your from..

[Sharif]

First time I ever heard of shell 

My answer would be a case is a thing that is a casing/enclosure.

 

Good luck cracking your nut shell 

[DigitalHermit]

I prefer to call it 'carcass'... /jk

 

I use case or chassiss commonly...