I've had my iMac for almost three years. By now with a PC I would have upgraded the video card or CPU by now, but I'm still perfectly happy with my Mac's performance. In fact, with OS upgrades it has gotten noticeably faster.
For me, I always have my LCD connected digitally to my computer and have been doing so since about 1999 or earlier when Compaq came out with a pre-DVI digital connector
I can't think of what that would be. The only pre-DVI connector I know about in use for monitors was the SGI one for the famous 1600SW.
Most families could fill their non-ego needs in one room houses, also. Well, make that two rooms. I guess we should have walls around the bathroom. Still, it would cost a lot less than houses with those ego-soothing but unnecessary family rooms, dining rooms, separate kitchens, garages, multiple bedrooms, etc.
It is a shame those greedy real estate salesmen sell people more than they need, and what about those slick TV commercials that brainwash people into moving to gated communities with golf courses. Unforgivable!
Netbooks can be a bit underpowered. The same woman who I helped buy a 14” Dell laptop w 4gb memory....She had bought a netbook (w 1gb memory) and it was just too slow as she described it. She returned it then got the Dell....Very happy with it and I prepped it for her. No trial-ware on it except an anti-virus which I got rid of and put on Avira. Checked all her security settings