[YurgenJurgensen]

The iMac is a terrible concept whose main contribution to society is sending a lot of perfectly good LCD monitors to the scrapyard because they’re inseparably bonded to a computer that goes obsolete far faster then they do.

[AnonC]

I completely get your point and agree with it (hence why I never wanted to buy an iMac). But I also see it as people having been used to having a separate monitor and being able to even treat a computer as a sum of parts where individual peripherals/parts can be changed or upgraded if and when needed or desired.

For the current youngest generation of humans (Generation Alpha onwards), an iMac is the same as a smartphone or a tablet — neither of these have any interchangeable or individually upgradable parts and both being complete units in themselves. If something breaks or if the performance or function of one part isn’t good enough, the entire unit is (typically) to be replaced.

The iMac is what the MacBooks and MacBook Pros have become over the years. If this trend continues, we probably may not see a computer, display, keyboard and mouse/pointer input made or sold separately. They may exist only in old movies, old TV shows and museums.

[jsheard]

Not quite inseparably, there are unofficial driver board kits available which convert an iMac into a monitor. It would be much better if that were possible without having to do iMac surgery of course.