[Still Thinking]

That said, it was a great exercise in good industrial design and packaging. Component size has come down since then, though.

Great??? I can't imagine how, unless by 'exercise' you mean it makes you hurt and smell bad. I wouldn't have one of those in my office if it were free and dispensed gasoline.

[Spktyr]

Heh, no. For an all-in-one, it was a good design - memory and hard drive were on the bottom and easily accessible. It was quiet, had a very adjustable screen (duh) and didn’t melt down (Gateway and Monorail, I’m looking at you.) Add to that that they had decent video in them and they made neat workstations.

*At the time*, they were the best AIOs available. Things have, of course, changed since then.

Remember this heap? It was the competition at the time. http://www.referenceguide.com/reviews/gatewayprofile4.htm

[Richard Kimball]

Mine's five years old and humming along. The DVD burner died a couple of years ago, and I could have replaced it, but decided to just stick a firewire DVD burner and a couple of hard drives on it.

Taste's personal, but I like it. Performs very well, and I really like the ability to move the screen around.

[Swordmaker]

Great??? I can't imagine how, unless by 'exercise' you mean it makes you hurt and smell bad. I wouldn't have one of those in my office if it were free and dispensed gasoline.

I administered a dental office that seven of them on the office staffs' desks. Nothing else available then had a smaller footprint or a more ergonomically positioning screen. No matter where you positioned the screen it would stay where you put it.

When we retired them in favor of 20" iMac G5s about three years ago, four of them were donated to a local food bank where they are still in use... and I still maintain them.