Monday, September 17, 2007
Is it Time to Consider an All-In-One Desktop?
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 AM
"With Apple refreshing their market leading iMac line, Sony their wonderful LT and LS lines, and HP their revolutionary Touchsmart (not to mention others coming to market shortly), is it finally time to consider an all-in-one desktop? I’m not going to focus much on the differences between products, and instead focus on the benefits of the form factor and why you may want to start considering it for a home or small office PC. I’ll even suggest there may be a market for an enterprise all-in-one, but the last true enterprise all-in-one, the X41, was from IBM and they discontinued it long before they spun out their PC division to Lenovo. Let’s start with the historical problems with all-in-ones and why they don’t matter as much, the historical advantages of all-in-ones (which are stronger than ever), and then conclude with why the class itself if worth considering seriously again."
It is so funny that this article came out now because I was just thinking about potentially buying a desktop. I have been using a laptop exclusively for about 2 years now and am missing out on all that possible gaming which just doesn't seem possible on a standard laptop. And while on a number of different manufacturers' websites (Dell, HP, Apple, etc.) I found that they were advertising all-in-one PCs a lot more than a few years ago (i.e. when I had last bought a desktop). What's more is that they were all very full-featured, stylish and quite affordable. I really do wonder if all-in-one PCs are the standard desktop PCs of the future?
It is so funny that this article came out now because I was just thinking about potentially buying a desktop. I have been using a laptop exclusively for about 2 years now and am missing out on all that possible gaming which just doesn't seem possible on a standard laptop. And while on a number of different manufacturers' websites (Dell, HP, Apple, etc.) I found that they were advertising all-in-one PCs a lot more than a few years ago (i.e. when I had last bought a desktop). What's more is that they were all very full-featured, stylish and quite affordable. I really do wonder if all-in-one PCs are the standard desktop PCs of the future?
