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Originally Posted by CommonReader
As he caressed the side of the latest iMac personal computer, he noted how thin it was - five millimeters, 80 percent thinner than the last one. Then he said, with an air of surprise, as if he'd just thought of it: "Isn't it amazing how something new makes the previous thing instantly look old?"
The new iMac is a risible design. There is no apparent reason why a desktop computer should strive for thinness. It neither has to be squeezed into a bag, nor do people put it on the wall like a flatscreen TV. Instead you are now expected to clutter your desk with a separate DVD-drive at your own expense or to crawl behind the computer just because you want to put in a SD-Card.
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The smaller Apple makes their computers, the more rapid the failure due to overheating. Look at the first five years of G5 iMacs. More of them had power supply or motherboard failures than didn't. Usually electrolytic capacitors failing. a ten dollar repair for which Apple charges several hundred.