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Lifer
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Patranus said:
Man, are you crack baby high? The iMac is almost PERFECT in its current form factor.
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I disagree, as mentioned before. The 27" iMac is a very poor design ergonomically. It is a tall unit, but taller than it needs to be. It has a chin and therefore is several inches taller than it should be. Furthermore, it has no height adjustability at all (and doesn't swivel either). Furthermore, it has a pixel density of 109 ppi, which is quite high for a desktop placed closed to the user.

The 21.5" iMac is much more appropriate for the general public on several fronts.
 
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Joe1986

Patranus said:
The difference is that Google doesn't make hardware.
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That's not entirely accurate, and by the same logic you could argue Apple doesn't make hardware.

I do think Google does a god awful job of retailing hardware. Heh, one could argue that's farmed out too.
 
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Eug said:
I disagree, as mentioned before. The 27" iMac is a very poor design ergonomically. It is a tall unit, but taller than it needs to be. It has a chin and therefore is several inches taller than it should be. Furthermore, it has no height adjustability at all (and doesn't swivel either). Furthermore, it has a pixel density of 109 ppi, which is quite high for a desktop placed closed to the user.

The 21.5" iMac is much more appropriate for the general public on several fronts.
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The only thing is that its not height adjustable. How many 27" monitors are there with a higher res than 2560?
 
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Lifer
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MrX8503 said:
The only thing is that its not height adjustable. How many 27" monitors are there with a higher res than 2560?
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A more appropriate resolution for a 27" would be lower. Either that or else Retina, so that you could pick and choose resolutions.
 
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Joe1986 said:
That's not entirely accurate, and by the same logic you could argue Apple doesn't make hardware.

I do think Google does a god awful job of retailing hardware. Heh, one could argue that's farmed out too.
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Google neither designs nor manufactures hardware.
All of their hardware offerings are outsourced

While Apple outsourcers certain parts and the manufacturing process they design every piece of hardware they offer.

Apple has to spend resources designing both. Google only has to focus on software while their confederates focus on software. Makes it a lot easier to be pigeonholed and advance their mobile OS while Apple focuses on OSX, desktop hardware, iOS, mobile hardware, peripherals, ect.
 
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TheStu

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Patranus said:
Google neither designs nor manufactures hardware.
All of their hardware offerings are outsourced

While Apple outsourcers certain parts and the manufacturing process they design every piece of hardware they offer.

Apple has to spend resources designing both. Google only has to focus on software while their confederates focus on software. Makes it a lot easier to be pigeonholed and advance their mobile OS while Apple focuses on OSX, desktop hardware, iOS, mobile hardware, peripherals, ect.
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Right, because Google puts ALL it's engineering resources into Android development and not... everything else that they also do. Obviously they don't, and it still doesn't address my earlier point which was that they were so far behind at launch that of course their velocity for improvements is higher, but they are going to hit a wall, if they haven't already.

They designed and implemented the self driving car tech, didn't they? Or the Street View cars? How about all their custom servers and power management systems in their farms? Google Glass? The Nexus Q?

So, like I said, what was your point exactly?
 
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Right, because Google puts ALL it's engineering resources into Android development and not... everything else that they also do. Obviously they don't, and it still doesn't address my earlier point which was that they were so far behind at launch that of course their velocity for improvements is higher, but they are going to hit a wall, if they haven't already.

They designed and implemented the self driving car tech, didn't they? Or the Street View cars? How about all their custom servers and power management systems in their farms? Google Glass? The Nexus Q?

So, like I said, what was your point exactly?
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Don't forget the Chromebook Pixel :thumbsup:
 
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Eug said:
I'd say it will be gone completely soon as a built-in feature. At most they'll keep it in the Mac Pro.
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I doubt they'll be discontinuing the cMBP, this year at least.

We'll just have to wait and see!
 
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Multimon not an issue on my MBA

iOS 7 looks great though! I hope they allow i on my iPad 2!
 
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