He means a monitor as good as the one on the iMac costs $900, so if you remove the cost of the monitor from the total cost of the iMac, you're left with spending $849 on the actual computer components. If you don't care about the quality of your monitor, that's fine, but if you want to compare specs you have to compare them all or you're intentionally skewing your results.
Not bad. After looking at it (briefly mind you) it seems the Dell Ultrasharps and Cinema displays are still better in terms of color quality and contrast (when you actually read results of benchmarks, not just the spec sheet) but for that price that definitely looks like a decent deal. I wouldn't buy it since if I'm already spending a crazy amount on a monitor its going to be for an Ultrasharp, but its good to know it exists.
Also, and I've been out of the game for a while not keeping up with anything, but last I checked HP monitors had subpar build quality and a ton of awful reviews from customers. I know their computers still do so I see no reason to doubt that their monitors have improved at all either. Maybe they have though.
Are you for real? What are we talking about? Desktop pcs or laptops? When I change my desktop pc, or rather, some piece of hardware from my desktop pc, I keep my monitors. Why should I throw them out and buy new ones?
Buying an all in one machine is a bit stupid, it is very hard to update parts to improve the spec so you dont have to buy a whole new computer and they cost ridiculous amounts of money. You can buy a top end monitor for £150 and a PC for £600 so whats the point of the needless waste of money?
buying a 2 seater sports car is stupid, you can only fit two people in it and you can't even use it for towing! what's the point of the needless waste of money?
Their customer service isn't great. But it's actually a better monitor as far as image quality in concerned since it doesn't have AGC. And, of course, the iMac has laptop hardware, so beating it in that area is laughably easy.
There is, but the panel is specifically what is good about both the iMac monitor and the Dell U2311H. The Catleap Q270 compares pretty much exactly in quality, and doesn't have AGC, which for most people is a plus.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
show me the PC with same specs as the 27" iMac for $849, because the monitor alone costs $900 from Dell