“A 32-inch iMac could easily find a niche as a family workhorse and entertainment center.
iMac for Entertainment
A 32-inch screen is big.
Big enough to be a TV, a games machine, a FaceTime portal, and plenty more.
A vintage iMac.Nicholas Santoianni / Unsplash
And Macs have great built-in speakers.
Put a big iMac into a living room, and you have most ofyour home entertainment needstaken care of.
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And what about FaceTime?
iMac 27-inch (2020).Apple
you could even use youriPhone camera as a webcam for a Macjust by propping it up near the computer.
And then there are the computing tasks.
E-Waste
The benefits of having a stationary, always-connected computer are legion.
An iMac on a desk in a bedroom.Gabriel Beaudry / Unsplash
By combining all of these devices andfunctions into one machine, you gain a lot.
Butand here’s the downsideall-in-one computers aren’t the best idea in the long term.
The big problem is that displays last much longer than the computers that drive them.
iMac.(c) Courtesy of Apple
The screen will continue to look fantastic in ten years and work just as well as it does today.
Computers, on the other hand,become obsolete much quicker.
Either way, it’s better than a legion of laptops.
