The All-In-One PC.

I have been ask about the All-in-one pc a lot lately. Attached, you will find an article about them. Here are my thoughts on them.  They are neat, space saving little machines and I don’t have enough experience with them to give an honest answer. Based on the research I’ve done on them, I can give my opinion. When dealing with them, an old saying comes to mind., “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” If one item goes bad , it all goes bad. Just like the 4-in-one copier/fax/scanner/printer. If the copier goes out, maybe the scanner will still work, maybe not. Same thing goes here. If the screen gets damaged, you just can’t run to Best Buy and buy a new monitor. Heaven forbid an internal devices goes bad like the hard drive or video card. You need to be a surgeon / auto body man to change it out. First you have to use a dent puller (suction cups) to carefully remove the glass that covers the screen. The glass is held on by about a dozen magnets. Too much pressure one way or the other and CRACK you just broke the glass. If you successfully remove the glass, now you have another dozen T-5 torque screws to remove. Then open the case about an inch and with a pair of long tweezers, unplug a wire (which you must use the same tweezers to plug back in when reassembling it.) Now unscrew the LCD screen and unplug two more wires to tilt the screen forward to get to the “guts’ of the pc. A few more steps and you are ready to reassemble it. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Next comes cost, which can range anywhere from $900 up to $1300. I think these computers serve a purpose for a certain group of people, like college kids and people with limited space. The choice is yours. Just make sure you do your homework before purchasing one. Hope this helps.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/262078/hp_tries_to_trump_imac_with_spectreone.html