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In article <pe20oh$dsv$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> > Lastly, a new iMac that removes all the boarders around the screen
> 
> Borderless displays are pointlessly silly waste of time for most people 
> ... "I gained an extra half an inch of display" ... whoop-de-doo!!   :-\
> (Even sillier are the 'wrap around the edge' displays some fools keep 
> trying to put on mobile phones! All you get is distortion where it 
> curves around the edge.)

nonsense.

> The only time a borderless display would be of any use is for the tiny 
> minority who have multiple displays pushed up against each other to 
> make a larger 'single' display (even then you'll still see a 'join').

nonsense.

> > and consumes less space.
> 
> The only real way to make an iMac take up "less space" is to have a 
> smaller display size, which isn't gonna happen.

or make it borderless, as well as thinner.

> Johny Ive could make the thing even thinner by dumping SSD for storage 
> and simply using RAM chips soldered onto the motherboard ... or even 
> having NO storage at all and forcing people to use external drives or 
> the cloud. (It's not like Apple hasn't dumped internal storage options 
> before 

they've never dumped internal storage on a mac.

> - just look at the missing floppy drive on the G3 iMac, and the 
> missing DVD-burners on later iMacs.)

nothing is missing. 

they stopped including those because they weren't needed anymore.

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  Re: WWDC Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 12:14 -0700
  Re: WWDC JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-05-22 16:30 -0400
    Re: WWDC nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-22 16:46 -0400
    Re: WWDC Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2018-05-23 00:32 +0100
  Re: WWDC Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-23 09:06 +1200
    Re: WWDC nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-22 17:10 -0400
      Re: WWDC Peter Kozlov <pkoz@blacksea.design> - 2018-05-22 19:16 -0700
        Re: WWDC JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-05-23 03:24 -0400
          Re: WWDC Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-23 19:49 +1200
            Re: WWDC Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 02:53 -0700
              Re: WWDC Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-24 03:51 -0700
          Re: WWDC Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-05-23 22:52 +0000
            Re: WWDC Peter Kozlov <pkoz@blacksea.design> - 2018-05-24 10:40 -0700
              Re: WWDC Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-25 09:12 +1200
                Re: WWDC Peter Kozlov <pkoz@blacksea.design> - 2018-05-24 14:19 -0700
                Re: WWDC Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-25 15:50 +1200
                Re: WWDC android <here@there.was> - 2018-05-25 08:05 +0200
                Re: WWDC Peter Kozlov <pkoz@blacksea.design> - 2018-05-25 07:39 -0700
                Re: WWDC Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-26 11:13 +1200
                Re: WWDC Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-24 16:18 -0700
    Re: WWDC Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 17:00 -0700
  Re: WWDC Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-05-23 02:13 +0000
    Re: WWDC Peter Kozlov <pkoz@blacksea.design> - 2018-05-22 19:30 -0700
      Re: WWDC Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-23 18:35 +1200
        Re: WWDC Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 00:48 -0700
        Re: WWDC nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-23 08:46 -0400

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