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Try this simple test at home: What's the name of Dell's best-selling PC? Anybody? Anybody?
Right. Nobody knows.
And nobody cares. Today, it's all about phones and tablets, baby. Nobody buzzes about the PC anymore. Innovation is dead. Sales are down, right? Actually, there's one pocket of surging sales and innovation in PC land: the luxury all-in-one computer, of the type made famous by the iMac.
I took a look at three silver, high-design, screen-on-a-stalk competitors: Apple's new iMac ($1,300 and up), Hewlett-Packard's SpectreOne ($1,300 and up), and the Vizio All-in-One Touch PC ($1,000 and up). (Lenovo, Dell, Samsung and Acer also offer, or soon will offer, very similar all-in-ones.)
What characterizes these computers? First, an emphasis on looks. They're shiny, sleek, futuristic, uncluttered and cordless (they come with Bluetooth wireless keyboard and trackpad or mouse). They're sculpture. In your kitchen or on your desk, they contribute to the décor even when they're turned off. The usual box of innards is missing. In the iMac, the guts are concealed behind the screen. In the Vizio, they're in the foot of the monitor. In the H.P., they're inside the stalk that supports the screen.
The second common trait is state-of-the-art components. These computers offer gorgeous, vivid, high-definition screens. And they're fast; they're powered by the latest Intel chips and lots of memory.
Third characteristic: no DVD drive.
What? Do these companies really think that the era of the disc is over? That nobody will ever again want to digitize music from a CD? Or burn some files to a disc to hand to a colleague? Or borrow a DVD from the library?
Right. Nobody knows.And nobody cares. Today, it's all about phones and tablets, baby. Nobody buzzes about the PC anymore. Innovation is dead. Sales are down, right? Actually, there's one pocket of surging sales and innovation in PC land: the luxury all-in-one computer, of the type made famous by the iMac.
I took a look at three silver, high-design, screen-on-a-stalk competitors: Apple's new iMac ($1,300 and up), Hewlett-Packard's SpectreOne ($1,300 and up), and the Vizio All-in-One Touch PC ($1,000 and up). (Lenovo, Dell, Samsung and Acer also offer, or soon will offer, very similar all-in-ones.)
What characterizes these computers? First, an emphasis on looks. They're shiny, sleek, futuristic, uncluttered and cordless (they come with Bluetooth wireless keyboard and trackpad or mouse). They're sculpture. In your kitchen or on your desk, they contribute to the décor even when they're turned off. The usual box of innards is missing. In the iMac, the guts are concealed behind the screen. In the Vizio, they're in the foot of the monitor. In the H.P., they're inside the stalk that supports the screen.
The second common trait is state-of-the-art components. These computers offer gorgeous, vivid, high-definition screens. And they're fast; they're powered by the latest Intel chips and lots of memory.
Third characteristic: no DVD drive.
What? Do these companies really think that the era of the disc is over? That nobody will ever again want to digitize music from a CD? Or burn some files to a disc to hand to a colleague? Or borrow a DVD from the library?
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