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Originally Posted by Wayne A
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I think you can argue it very easily. As I keep saying, a lot of people on this forum come at it from the point of view of someone who acutally enjoys taking PCs to bits and rebuilding/enhancing them. The iMac is not aimed at these people.
I don't sit in my lounge resenting my TV because I can't open it up, take out the analogue tuner and replace it with a Freeview one. When I replace my TV, I won't go looking for all the components seperately and construct my own, even though I could if I wanted to. I suspect you wouldn't either. (The fact that the battery in your iPod isn't user replaceable didn't stop you buying one, either
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The iMac is a piece of consumer electronics, designed to do a specific job in as simple and elegant a way as possible, and it does it very well indeed. Its principal handicap is not the fact you can't upgrade it, it's that Microsoft has, for the time being, 'won' the OS war to such an extent that Mac OS is (quite unfairly) seen as something to be avoided by home users. (and, back to your iPod, the fact that its OS restricts the kinds of files you can play on it, and the desktop software you use to manage it, didn't stop you buying it).