Rhotis

Fine,  show me numbers for 2014 indicating AIO systems are a huge market share now.  Good luck.  
 
EDITING did not see he named software so going to pluck out some cheap versions that doe the same thing
 
Pages -  Open Office.  Been running it for almost 16 years.  Free,
 
Numbers -  Open Office.  Been running it for almost 16 years.  Free.
 
iPhoto -  Are you kidding me?  There are DOZENS of cheap or free MS variants.  
 
iMovie -  VSDC is free
 
Garageband -  LMMS
 
You may not like those pieces of software.  Functionality wise though they are as good and for most of them better than the free on Apple software you listed.  

I never bought the foothold thing about Microsoft.  Microsoft got that foothold because the market voted with their dollar and did not want a closed system.  Jump to today (decades later) and the market still votes with its dollar because it does not want a closed system.  
 
PS I have been working in the IT industry longer than the average LTT viewer has been alive.  I know the history.  I actually lived it.  

The average consumer does not want nor care about a 400 dollar display.  Evident by Apples market share
 
Again WHAT software.  You keep babbling about "the software"  Tell us what it is.  It is pretty difficult to show you the "equal cost" when you will not tell us what software we are looking for.  
 
Who cares what people in hollywood use?  Guess what,  the machines that actually render the effects are not Apple,  they are custom linux builds.  There is again,  who cares what people in hollywood use?  
 
There are many business' that make good money serving niche markets.  Tesla anyone?  
 
In 2012 over 355 million computers were sold.  Roughly 14 million of those were AIO's.  That is the definition of niche.  
 
No you have not given a legit point.  You keep talking in weird generalities that make no sense and you get things wrong.  

AIO -  If what you said was true AIO systems would be a MUCH bigger segment of the market than they are.  They have a segment but not to the point that you try to make it out to be.  THe reason they do not have a stranglehold on new PCs for the average consumer you ask?  The same reason TVs with built in VCRs and built in DVRs did not saturate the market in their days.  In fact those products ARE the reason the AIO PC does not have a massive market share today.  Everyone old enough to remember them remembers what a pain in the ass those things were.  Average consumer level 24 inch monitors are cheap as hell For 130 US (often less) you can get a 24 inch monitor that is more than adequate for the average consumer.  And if that monitor goes out you can go cheaply buy another one rather than needing to replace the entire freaking computer.  So yes,  AIO computers are in fact stupid.  They are a niche product for a niche group of people.  
 
Now as to your rant about exclusive software that would cost an arm and a leg that comes standard with a mac can you name some things.  You kind of just went on a rant about how awesome the stuff is but did nto tell us what software we would need to find.  
 
If apple was thinking of the customer base they would have a much bigger share of the market.  This shows me that you sir are the fanboy in this discussion.  You are glorifying a company that has a sliver of the computing market outside of cell phones.  If they were doing things as well as you would have us think they are they would have a bit of a bigger share.  Instead they have a tiny share and the one market they had steam in they are losing ground year over year now.  

That did the trick,  danka.  

Everyone that has a high end gaming computer whether they realize it or not is using their PC in the winter as a space heater.  It prolly should not be your intention to do so but when you put in top tier components and overclock them you are generating a decent amount of heat.  My office is always the warmest room in the house.  

Everyone that has a high end gaming computer whether they realize it or not is using their PC in the winter as a space heater.  It prolly should not be your intention to do so but when you put in top tier components and overclock them you are generating a decent amount of heat.  My office is always the warmest room in the house.  

I have an old radio shack Pong machine from the 70s in the garage.  Last I checked a couple years ago it still worked.  

Yeah if the non K sku is released in August I will be prolly picking that up since overclocking in this would be minimal if at all.  

Chances are it would have been found out and if it happened to not be legal in his state for him to keep them he would be screwed.  
 
If UPS did not have a way to sort it and back track it after it was noticed the shipment went missing then in order to actually have a use for them he would have to sell them.  Say he sells 600 of them and keeps 6 for family presents.  Thats 600 people that one of them is going to try to register that iPod.  That shipment and those serials is going to get chucked to a "missing or stolen" bin by Apple and when someone tries to register one the flags hit, the investigation starts and he is tracked.  

Yes.  I have prolly opened up systems more expensive than 99% of the board.  Not that I am special was just lucky to work for a company in the early 00s that had a multi million dollar mail system using Sun enterprise 6500s, 4500s, 450s and a nifty little u10 as a head unit.  I replaced drives,  added memory in each of the systems.  Never gate a flip about static.  Just touched the frame of the rack before I stuck my hand inside and all was good.  

I had one in the 90s that I almost never used.  I have put together and or worked on hundreds of machines from simple no frills PCs to high end PCs to Sun enterprise multi million dollar systems over 22 years.  I have never zapped a single component.  
 
One of the funniest things I have seen though has been at a trade show in 2000.  I forget what the show even was,  was some show in Chicago.  Turned out the PC the PR people grabbed and took to the show had no NIC card in it and no onboard.  So me and another guy in sysops went to take a NIC (really I just went to look around the show heh).  So my partner in crime so to speak takes this NIC,  opens the case and puts it in then goes to power it on.  Dummy did not even realize it was already powered on.  He inserted a PCI NIC into a running system.  It damaged nothing and worked perfectly.  Funniest thing I have personally witnessed in tech.  

I had one in the 90s that I almost never used.  I have put together and or worked on hundreds of machines from simple no frills PCs to high end PCs to Sun enterprise multi million dollar systems over 22 years.  I have never zapped a single component.  
 
One of the funniest things I have seen though has been at a trade show in 2000.  I forget what the show even was,  was some show in Chicago.  Turned out the PC the PR people grabbed and took to the show had no NIC card in it and no onboard.  So me and another guy in sysops went to take a NIC (really I just went to look around the show heh).  So my partner in crime so to speak takes this NIC,  opens the case and puts it in then goes to power it on.  Dummy did not even realize it was already powered on.  He inserted a PCI NIC into a running system.  It damaged nothing and worked perfectly.  Funniest thing I have personally witnessed in tech.  

I had one in the 90s that I almost never used.  I have put together and or worked on hundreds of machines from simple no frills PCs to high end PCs to Sun enterprise multi million dollar systems over 22 years.  I have never zapped a single component.  
 
One of the funniest things I have seen though has been at a trade show in 2000.  I forget what the show even was,  was some show in Chicago.  Turned out the PC the PR people grabbed and took to the show had no NIC card in it and no onboard.  So me and another guy in sysops went to take a NIC (really I just went to look around the show heh).  So my partner in crime so to speak takes this NIC,  opens the case and puts it in then goes to power it on.  Dummy did not even realize it was already powered on.  He inserted a PCI NIC into a running system.  It damaged nothing and worked perfectly.  Funniest thing I have personally witnessed in tech.  

I had one in the 90s that I almost never used.  I have put together and or worked on hundreds of machines from simple no frills PCs to high end PCs to Sun enterprise multi million dollar systems over 22 years.  I have never zapped a single component.  
 
One of the funniest things I have seen though has been at a trade show in 2000.  I forget what the show even was,  was some show in Chicago.  Turned out the PC the PR people grabbed and took to the show had no NIC card in it and no onboard.  So me and another guy in sysops went to take a NIC (really I just went to look around the show heh).  So my partner in crime so to speak takes this NIC,  opens the case and puts it in then goes to power it on.  Dummy did not even realize it was already powered on.  He inserted a PCI NIC into a running system.  It damaged nothing and worked perfectly.  Funniest thing I have personally witnessed in tech.  

I had one in the 90s that I almost never used.  I have put together and or worked on hundreds of machines from simple no frills PCs to high end PCs to Sun enterprise multi million dollar systems over 22 years.  I have never zapped a single component.  
 
One of the funniest things I have seen though has been at a trade show in 2000.  I forget what the show even was,  was some show in Chicago.  Turned out the PC the PR people grabbed and took to the show had no NIC card in it and no onboard.  So me and another guy in sysops went to take a NIC (really I just went to look around the show heh).  So my partner in crime so to speak takes this NIC,  opens the case and puts it in then goes to power it on.  Dummy did not even realize it was already powered on.  He inserted a PCI NIC into a running system.  It damaged nothing and worked perfectly.  Funniest thing I have personally witnessed in tech.  

I had one in the 90s that I almost never used.  I have put together and or worked on hundreds of machines from simple no frills PCs to high end PCs to Sun enterprise multi million dollar systems over 22 years.  I have never zapped a single component.  
 
One of the funniest things I have seen though has been at a trade show in 2000.  I forget what the show even was,  was some show in Chicago.  Turned out the PC the PR people grabbed and took to the show had no NIC card in it and no onboard.  So me and another guy in sysops went to take a NIC (really I just went to look around the show heh).  So my partner in crime so to speak takes this NIC,  opens the case and puts it in then goes to power it on.  Dummy did not even realize it was already powered on.  He inserted a PCI NIC into a running system.  It damaged nothing and worked perfectly.  Funniest thing I have personally witnessed in tech.  

This build is so much more expensive than it needs to be
 
WHat is this build for? Gaming or content creation or both?

Biggest system I have worked with?
 
For size comparison using this pic I found
 

 
The innards in generic terms
 

 
For PCs?  Nothing quite so big as what is posted in the cases above.  

http://www.ncixus.com/products/?sku=103632&vpn=BK009&manufacture=be%20quiet%21&promoid=1301 is an amazing deal.
ncix is very trusted in this community.

I always thought Linus looked more like a Simon.  

If you are rebooting client computers frequently you will absolutely consider boot times "system performance"
 
Nothing sucks worse than installing new hardware on 30 computers that take 2 minutes each to boot fully.  

Man if I cant start a windows v windows war on LTT what has the world come too
 
Just teasin ya brother.  

I honestly don't care what the world thinks. they can choose to disagree with me and that's okay. but I am still entitled to an opinion, and what people think of me is not going to change that.
 
I'm going to stop there before this goes any farther.

I am not saying you are wrong..... but the world mostly disagrees with you.  Do not fret though.  The world once mostly agreed that bell bottoms were cool.