On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jonathon Kuo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Nico Nachtigall wrote: > >> Am 16.02.10 21:10, wrote Jonathon Kuo: >>> My office just got in a suite of new 27" iMacs, 2.8GHz, 8GB, 1TB. >> >> I don't see a point of buying a Screen with a CPU in the butt. Sorry. > > Just curious: Why does it matter where the CPU is? Separate components simplify problems of thermal management and allow you to replace just the part than broke. Cables, however, are evil, and all-in-one does cut down on cable problems. Screens and hard disks are generally the first things to go. You can replace a hard disk (usually with something larger, faster, and cooler) but with an iMac all you can do is repair the screen, which may take weeks. If an external monitor dies you can replace it with something better in a jiffy. All-in-one great for large organizations who get to shrink the cubicles from 8x8 to 7x7 and cut the cost of renting office space, and if an iMac breaks they just swap in a spare. It would be nice to see a mid-range system with similar internals and power consumption to the iMac 27in but a separate screen. I think PC vendors have problems with such designs outside large organizations -- users eventually want to load them up with high-end graphics cards and big disks, so while there are lots of people who would buy such systems, too many would not be happy with them in the long run. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
