All in one pc

[hc4361]

I've just seen these reviewed on the Gadget Show. They look fantastic, but I can't help feeling they are oversized laptops with separate keyboards, without the advantages of a laptop such as portability, but with all the disadvantages such as limited ability to upgrade.
Could you mount the screen on a wall, like a flat screen tv?
Am I right about the problems of future upgrade?

[ChuckFickens]

I reality though how upgradable are most modern PC's.

By the time you start thinking about upgrading most modern PC's you find that they have changed the standards, for example, the CPU socket will have changed if you want to put a faster CPU in it (or your mother board won't support the new faster bus speed) or the socket for the graphics card will have changed in some way so you can't upgrade that to a better one.

Of course, with a standard case you can always change the motherboard and every other part inside, but then your not really upgrading, more like starting again but simply reusing the case.

[ACtheTROLL]

chuck is right

if it does what you want ... it's a good option.

if you game the spec needs to be quite high ... but as long as it good enough ... it's good enough.

the techies all tend to forget that could ... and will are two very different things to non techies ... and USB will connect most things "ordinary" users need.

you probably are getting a laptop ... but with desktop components so they'll run faster and cooler

[fo3nix]

You're right,

Apple started this with its excellent iMac computer (been out several years now, in various forms).

It does use some laptop components. Due to size constraints, it's also harder to upgrade than larger desktop computers.

But how many people actually upgrade their systems? The answer is not many. So for the vast majority of people (regular computer users), iMac-style designs are great, because they save space and look nicer and neater.

The most common upgrade is probably RAM, which is still very easy on iMac-like designs.

Some of them can be mounted on the wall, yes. The mount standard is called VESA.