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Originally Posted by astraith  an "All-In-One" machine is exactly that, all in one. Instead of buying a monitor, it's built into the computer. The only things that is not built into it is the keyboard/mouse...that means the parts have to be small. Like a laptop. It's why the prices are different then the machine you picked. If you compared the All in One machine from Dell and compared it to the machine you built, your would be cheaper and probably more powerful. But you couldn't really compare, because I didn't see a speed for the CPU's for the All-In-One's. |
I see - well in that case, there is a problem with the comparison you are trying to make.. This 'all-in-one' thing is a completely cosmetic feature, and one which is in its infancy, particularly in PCs. Probably prices will come, but currently they would be inflated as it is so new and more than a little pitched towards the 'Will I get a PC instead of the Mac I currently have?' market. In my opinion it taints your comparison by reducing the pool of options you can draw from on the PC side - you might as well say you can only compare with machines of the same color, or only machines where the mouse plugs into the keyboard.
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Originally Posted by astraith They might now, but I didn't see it. But if they do, then Apple does the same with their AppleCare. |
Yes, I know - you already said so, I was just mentioning that Dell offers this too. Personally I wouldn't take up such an option unless it was very, very cheap.