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		elblanco on Oct 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The curious pricing of the 27" iMac Why does th design matter beyond "look at me, I'm using an overpriced collection of stock hardware". It's the old saying "you can't polish a turd". Commodity hardware is always going to be commodity hardware no matter how shiny the case is.

kburn on Oct 26, 2009 [–]

Well, the point is is that while maybe the guts are off-the-shelf, but the system design is not.

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