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by roryisok 3112 days ago
This. I'm not going to shell out $3k for a desktop computer that can't be upgraded. That's just stupid, even if it does look nice.
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I didn't said you should, but in all honesty upgrade-ability is so overrated in the PC world.

Other than storage I haven't upgraded a single PC I've owned in the past decade if not more simply because at the point when upgrade was needed it was pointless.

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't buy this iMac, I don't need it, and I don't want it, and I would buy a PC, but Apple is pretty far from skinning people on prices this time around.

> I haven't upgraded a single PC I've owned in the past decade if not more simply because at the point when upgrade was needed it was pointless.

Maybe it's becoming less common to upgrade, but it doesn't mean people don't still do it. I've upgraded several machines in the last decade, for myself and others. Not everyone can afford to just chuck out an upgradeable PC and buy a new one.

> I didn't said you should, but in all honesty upgrade-ability is so overrated in the PC world.

You can keep a screen for example longer than the internals of the PC. Macs are just a waste in general because they are not made to be taken apart and to be serviced. And certainly NOT by the user.

> Other than storage I haven't upgraded a single PC I've owned in the past decade if not more simply because at the point when upgrade was needed it was pointless.

Me neither, but for a different reason: I moved over to the Mac ecosystem 6 years ago, and haven't been able to upgrade since then. Except for adding some memory to a mac mini.

I'm holding out for the new Mac Pro. If it's upgradable in a meaningful way, I'll snap one up.

Guessing you don't play a lot of PC games?
This is a workstation-grade computer, as in "not a playstation".
Nah my SLI 1080TIs and custom loop are just for benching minesweeper.