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Originally Posted by Bifta
How about if he'd built it for someone else, who would have then purchased it as a complete unit?
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No, this is part of my point ... you get the iMac from a retailer who is your single recourse if/when it needs support of any kind, and who may offer an extended warranty (My iMac was covered by John Lewis for two years, IIRC), up to and incuding just replacing the entire thing if it dies.
I know you can get a high-spec PC damn cheap from Richard, yourself or any one of a large number of people (my first PC, a 286 I got in 1992, was assembled by the IT specialist at my dad's work), but that's the case with a lot of things in life if you're prepared to put the effort in. I could save a fortune building my own house instead of buying one, but I don't want to (extreme example, I know). Most people
do want an iToilet, and are prepared to pay a little more to get it. I think the fair comparison here is between an iMac and a comparable Dell PC, as was used in the article I linked yesterday.
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There's a fair few cases on the market now that even my mrs. wouldn't object to having around the house (as opposed to my radioactive looking antec)
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I'm not letting Mrs T see them because I just like OSX and I don't wanna change
TBH it's as much the all-in-one aspect of it as anything else ... she'd never let me have a Power Mac, because despite being a very smart piece of kit, it is the traditional separate box and monitor.