So far all All-in-ones Ive seen are ugly compared to an iMac. Isnt anything out there that perhaps has a better design?
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Any Windows All-in-One that have a stylish design?
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That's the one
It's not bad lookin. Some of the models look like the back is plastic, not sure about this one.
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z1_features.html
Never forget. Style 100% meaningless to how well a machine performs.
As much as I like my 11 iMac, its to much of a compromise. And its for meaningless looks and thinness. Sure it looks great in my living room, and its dead sexy to look at. But I know something will probably fail...again.
Heat = death
Never forget. Style 100% meaningless to how well a machine performs.
As much as I like my 11 iMac, its to much of a compromise. And its for meaningless looks and thinness. Sure it looks great in my living room, and its dead sexy to look at. But I know something will probably fail...again.
Heat = death
Those vaios use really nice VA panels as well. Great contrast ratio and view angles.
Shocked this hasn't been posted yet, the best one(in my opinion):
http://www.vizio.com/all-in-one/overview
http://www.vizio.com/all-in-one/overview
I didn't explore it long enough to have an opinion on specs, but that is indeed a beautiful machine. Seems well thought out and most certainly elegant in appearance.
Have You ever checked the HP envy 23 ?
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/ho...5A55AV?HP-ENVY-23-1050t-All-in-One-Desktop-PC
Unfortunately in Europe not on the market......
BTW: I waited so long, for my computer needs and with upcoming Win8 and hardware that will come, I will wait till sept or oct and decide: If the imac is reasonably refreshed imac, if not lets see
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/ho...5A55AV?HP-ENVY-23-1050t-All-in-One-Desktop-PC
Unfortunately in Europe not on the market......
BTW: I waited so long, for my computer needs and with upcoming Win8 and hardware that will come, I will wait till sept or oct and decide: If the imac is reasonably refreshed imac, if not lets see
Whoa .. looks like an iMac.
But?
Tilt it a little to the left.
And ...
Meeeehh
Fake duck foot. Great job
But?
Tilt it a little to the left.
And ...
Meeeehh
Fake duck foot. Great job
To be honest, out of any of them the only one that gets any serious consideration from me is the Dell XPS One 27, specifically the i7 model.
There are three problems that I can see:
1. There is no SSD drive (or option for one apart from the 'cache' option) and the 6GB offered in the £1,499 model seems very light for such an application. So I would be going for an upgrade in RAM to 16GB and getting someone to stick an SSD drive inside.
2. The other two issues that I can see are besides the sound (which I'm told is not brilliant on that particular machine so I'll get some headphones) is that the screen is meant to produce rather poor blacks in the sense that they are in fact dark grey rather than black. A video that I saw online made it look like it was quite bad for this.
Does anyone here actually have the XPS One 27 and can advise on that?
The other proposed AIOs in the list all have issues of their own - i.e. not being large as I'd like or having poor resolution (1920x1080 on a 27" monitor seems like very poor form) or plain not being powerful enough.
There are three problems that I can see:
1. There is no SSD drive (or option for one apart from the 'cache' option) and the 6GB offered in the £1,499 model seems very light for such an application. So I would be going for an upgrade in RAM to 16GB and getting someone to stick an SSD drive inside.
2. The other two issues that I can see are besides the sound (which I'm told is not brilliant on that particular machine so I'll get some headphones) is that the screen is meant to produce rather poor blacks in the sense that they are in fact dark grey rather than black. A video that I saw online made it look like it was quite bad for this.
Does anyone here actually have the XPS One 27 and can advise on that?
The other proposed AIOs in the list all have issues of their own - i.e. not being large as I'd like or having poor resolution (1920x1080 on a 27" monitor seems like very poor form) or plain not being powerful enough.
No, knock off's are rarely if ever as good as the original. If you like the Mac look and must run windows there's Bootcamp or VM's.
I tried to look for other AIO desktops (because of the ridiculous iMac 2012 waiting) but gave up after thinking about leaving OS X - that I just cannot do
Even if there was a nice looking one, it would be running Windows and worse yet, Windows 8 pretty soon.
Why would you want one of those?
I prefer external design over Operational System. It wont be my main computer anyways, just something extra.
I tried to look for other AIO desktops (because of the ridiculous iMac 2012 waiting) but gave up after thinking about leaving OS X - that I just cannot do
Pretty much my thought process. I just finally bit the bullet and ordered a 2011 iMac. Yes, it will be "obsolete" most likely in a couple of months. Oh well. I'm already thrilled with it so shame on me lol.