As usual, you’ll find the accompanying documentation and fasteners inside the case. There are few accessories here. Besides the system case with obligatory fasteners, rails for your drives and a manual, the box only contains a micro-fiber napkin. And the usefulness of that single accessory is rather dubious. You can wipe the side window with it whereas the other surfaces should better be cleaned with ordinary wet napkins for office equipment.

All the difference between the Armor Jr. and the Aquila boils down to three things: the color and the material of the case, and the shape of the decorative door. You can compare the color schemes yourself, and as for the material, the Armor Jr., being a true representative of the series, can challenge any top-class system case in the thickness and quality of the steel in its chassis. The Aquila is made of aluminum, which is the material typical of the most expensive system cases, yet we don’t regard this as an indisputable advantage. With all its low weight, an aluminum chassis is less robust than a steel one, their dimensions being the same. You can see it if you press on the mainboard’s mounting plate: it bends just a little in the Armor Jr., but in the Aquila it easily bottom out up to the right panel of the case and acquires the necessary stiffness only when the mainboard is installed. But mainboards are not to be used as load-bearing elements of a system case.

As for the shape of the front panel, the Armor Junior’s panel is almost an exact copy of the senior model’s. With the Aquila, the designers were not constrained at all:

So, the Armor Jr. will please all users who like a restrained style without fanciful elements whereas the Aquila is an example of an original and fresh design. Unfortunately, the only thing the Armor Jr. shares with its senior brother (besides the high-quality metal of the chassis) are some identical external features: the “wings” on the front panel and the characteristic brackets in the 5.25” bays:

Everything else had to be changed because such a small system case doesn’t provide enough space for detachable cages and for a modular design of the front panel. It’s easier for the Aquila – it doesn’t have a famous predecessor and is not to be compared with anything. So, it was impossible to make a modular front panel in the Aquila and the Armor Jr., and the front panel of these system cases is not very appealing in terms of functionality as well as aesthetics.

This is especially noticeable with the Armor Jr. because, unlike the Aquila, it has little of a decorative face panel, and the rightwards shifted intake fan doesn’t look too pretty. Well, we just can’t criticize the new component layout of these system cases seriously – this is a very lucky solution for this product class.

There’s nothing superfluous here: a detachable cage for hard drives and enough of space to accommodate any modern configuration, except for the most extreme ones. The case is ventilated with two 120mm fans on the front and rear panels. The Aquila’s exhaust fan features blue LED-based highlighting:

To the right of the fan you can see a PC Speaker on the side panel. That’s a queer position for it and its cable is short, making you put it under the mainboard. If you want to connect it at all, that is.