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[KCMW]

yofal, whether the port goes or not...

if the port is OK, yes, you can get by with an external monitor for a while. But at some point, you have to take in the AIO and give up your CPU for the time it takes to get the screen repaired. With a headless iMAc, you can hook up that external monitor, take the screen in to get it repaired, and never lose your CPU.


I think there's a much better chance statistically that you'll find the processor lacking before you have any serious issues with the screen.

You are making our points for us. That is exactly why I don't want my CPU 'integrated' with my screen. With separates, I can update my box, and keep my old still-useful screen. Or repurpose it, or use it as an extension to another screen, or pretty much anything I please, w/o hoping that it aligns with Steve Job's view of the world.

Choice is good. Apple should offer AIO and headless versions targeted below the 'pro' user.


-KCMW

[langostino]

"If your port goes ... Hunh?"


Poorly worded on my part? If the monitor on my iMac croaks, exactly what good does it do me that I've got a port I could hang an external off? I've still got to send the whole iMac back to be repaired. ACD croaks, I plug in a spare monitor while the ACD is off being repaired.

I can certainly understand why AIOs are a nice solution for you. What I can't understand is why you seem to think the reasons AIOs are not the right solution for others are so marginal.

For you, hanging external optical drives, etc is fine, apparently (although I have a hard time reconciling that with the cable and clutter argument). I suck it up and accept it, but it's second-rate in my world. Can I cart my iMac to an Apple Store and have them charge me a 500% premium for a new drive? Sure. But I'd rather order exactly what I want, have it delivered to my door overnight, replace the thing myself and skip the drive, the hassle, and the ripoff charges.

At any rate, I wish you seemed as supportive and tolerant of others' balance of the various aspects of ownership as we are of your own interest in not being straightjacketed to a noisy case, cables, crawling under desks (speaking of thin gruel, seriously, how much more frequently do you crawl under desks of your towers than your AIOs?), etc.

p.s. It's great you've got the old G4 in service as a file server. But surely you'd admit if it was tied to the ACD, you'd have lost some benefit from the ACD, that you still have as things stand.