apple isn't going to make a tower since there is no way to be different
the iMac concept is easy on the geniuses since a person can take the entire computer to the apple store for troubleshooting. otherwise people will whine about taking in a monitor.
WTF!?!? Do they not have monitors at Apple stores!??? I KNOW them do. WTF would someone have to bring in their monitor? Hook them up to one at the Apple store. This isn't rocket science for goodness' sake!
the parts apple uses are designed to be fairly quiet and energy efficient. if apple built a tower with a huge graphics card that sounds like a jet engine the same people would complain about the noise expecting apple would do something magical to make it cool and quiet. there already complaints in the iMac forum from idiots who think the screen is too warm
You just keep assuming that everyone who buys a computer is a flipping MORON and so Apple needs to make computers for morons (that must be the iMac?). Fine. Keep the moron computer around for those people, but when REAL computer users and younger adults (almost all of them grew up with computers so they know WTF they are unlike some of their parents) let them have something that can actually do something useful (like run games; those are kind of popular with younger folk). It's not that hard for a sale person to tell which person is suited to which computer. Know zip about them? Steer them to an iMac. They know something? Steer them to a real computer. It's just that simple. And if Apple wants to innovate something, why don't they design case with a noise cancellation system in it so that that a top-end graphics card and whatever fans in it doesn't make any noise. I would love to see a whisper quiet high-end machine.
In any case, ALL of these issues exist in the PC world as well and they don't just make moron computers. If they did, no one would be able to run any games or any decent software at all since it would all be running on Fisher Price hardware (i.e. iMac). As for people who think the monitor IS the PC, I wonder where they got that idea from? (hint: iMac)
iMacs are not innovative. They would make great office PCs (where a lack of clutter makes sense) except that Apple doesn't cater to the business market. They're too expensive to be a kid's computer (there goes the Fisher Price market) and yet too underpowered graphically and have too few expansion options to be a power user computer. If the monitor happens to break, you are out of a computer. If my monitor breaks on my Power Mac or PC, I can go pick up another 22" one for $149. Besides, picking what you want in a computer and what you want in a monitor are two different things and SHOULD be two different things. With an iMac, too bad. If you want the larger monitor, you get the bigger computer. If you want the smaller monitor, you cannot get the faster GPU, CPU, etc. It's a stupid system, but most Apple fanatics can't see past their rose tinted tunnel vision to see it. At least the gumdrop generation iMacs were cute. The current generation just looks like any other flat screen monitor. There's nothing special about it.
