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by sneak 2339 days ago
Apple enthusiasts buy Macbook Pros or iMacs. There’s nothing wrong with integrated displays. In fact, it saves on a ton of cable mess, and they are usually worlds better than what you would plug a computer into anyway.
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> There’s nothing wrong with integrated displays

What? There is a lot wrong with AIOs.

1) Cooling is atrocious

2) Dust problems

3) Very difficult repairs and almost impossible upgrades (with some exceptions such as RAM)

4) No internal expansion. You save a cable with the monitor but you add cables for everything you want to add.

5) Once some component dies you have a very expensive monitor that can't be used for anything.

6) Much like laptops, tablets, and smartphones it's an environmental disaster.

Why don’t people complain that toasters aren’t expandable?

Apple builds appliances made from hardware and software.

There's everything wrong with integrated displays. You can't use it for dual displays. You can't upgrade the display withhout upgrading the computer. And if you get a bad case of stuck pixels, you need to carry the thing to a mall and pay out the behind for a replacement panel which requires complex surgery on the device.
apple will send you a box to ship it back in