Now that the keyboard was settled, I turned my attention to the body of the PreComputer. Up until this point I had assumed the internal volume of the case would be more sufficient for my needs, but that notion went out the window once I started dry fitting components.

The first thing that had to go was the battery compartment, since it took up a huge amount of space in the bottom half of the case. Oh, suppose this is a good a time as any to mention that the reComputer does not have any onboard batteries, and is powered by USB-C Power Delivery. I figured if I ever wanted to actually go mobile with it I could get a PD battery bank, but so far it's never moved more than ~50 feet from the workbench on which it was assembled, so no worries there.

Before:

After:

After removing the battery compartment, I also had to trim off a lot of plastic from the top side of the case. I'm not actually sure why this big flat section of plastic was necessary in the original design, since it was covered by the while bezel anyway.

With the excess plastic removed, it was time to sand and paint.