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<blockquote data-quote="soloudinhere" data-source="post: 446464" data-attributes="member: 34674">Funny, I work for a multibillion dollar company and they replace components all the time.If you replace all that, the only thing you didn't change is the case. Then, yes, it makes sense to buy a new one. If you just replace the hard drive and up the ram, it takes maybe half an hour and costs maybe $200.What you spend $1500 on an iMac, the boss men aren't as happy about just chucking it and buying a new one, especially since they could have had two PC towers for that and they know it...even if each tower only lasted two years (unlikely), you'd still get 4 years out of the same $1500 that might make it 3 years on an iMac. Desktops just weren't meant to have laptop parts in them. All you gain with the iMac is total lack of user repairability and some kind of all in one form factor that personally, I don't really see the merit of. In this particular situation, a group on a budget with a desire to have the hardware last as long as possible, the iMac and mac mini just don't make sense. You're effectively saying well the computer is disposable anyway, whch is precisely the idea the OP was trying to avoid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soloudinhere, post: 446464, member: 34674"] Funny, I work for a multibillion dollar company and they replace components all the time. If you replace all that, the only thing you didn't change is the case. Then, yes, it makes sense to buy a new one. If you just replace the hard drive and up the ram, it takes maybe half an hour and costs maybe $200. What you spend $1500 on an iMac, the boss men aren't as happy about just chucking it and buying a new one, especially since they could have had two PC towers for that and they know it...even if each tower only lasted two years (unlikely), you'd still get 4 years out of the same $1500 that might make it 3 years on an iMac. Desktops just weren't meant to have laptop parts in them. All you gain with the iMac is total lack of user repairability and some kind of all in one form factor that personally, I don't really see the merit of. In this particular situation, a group on a budget with a desire to have the hardware last as long as possible, the iMac and mac mini just don't make sense. You're effectively saying well the computer is disposable anyway, whch is precisely the idea the OP was trying to avoid. [/QUOTE]

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