Of course, having not seen or used a PlayStation 5 myself yet, I have no way of telling just how effective those tiny little dust catchers actually are yet. It might be launching in a lot of countries today, but it doesn’t come out in the UK until next week. For all I know, their tiny fingertip-sized openings might be just too small to get a vacuum over them effectively, and there’s also no telling how frequently they’ll need to be cleaned, either - which, let’s not forget, also requires you to remove the white cover fins every time you want to access them. But the IDEA of a small, relatively easy to reach vacuum point is one I’m very much onboard with. Having built and adapted several different PC configurations over the last few weeks for testing all manner of different components, from Nvidia’s RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 cards to AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 9 5900X chips, I’ve very aware of just how dirty some of my cases have become. And man alive, trying to clean individual fan blades, remove goodness knows how many filters AND give the inside the good wipe with a dust cloth has left me feeling both exhausted and very, very grimy. What I wouldn’t give for a single vacuum point that would suck all the dirt out of my PC and straight into my vacuum cleaner… Of course, the airflow inside a PC case is massively different to the airflow inside a console - even one as large as the PlayStation 5 - and I’d imagine it would be immensely difficult, if not impossible, to suddenly change the way air gets passed through a typical PC system. Unless you’re building a particularly small PC where space and airflow is limited, there’s usually tons of space for dirt and dust to float about inside a traditional tower case, making it very hard to get it to settle in a single location. It’s unlikely to ever happen, but hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?
