Another thing he failed to mention: expandability. I got so sick of all these different external hard drives, each with their own power brick and USB terminator

Another thing he failed to mention: expandability. I got so sick of all these different external hard drives, each with their own power brick and USB terminator (micro? mini? heck knows). Bought a Mac Pro and put them all on the internal drive bays - now everything lives in a single box and runs off a single power supply. I also put a blu-ray burner in the 2nd optical bay - another external box saved. The same is true of other outboard hardware - for example, I use a UAD-2 card for music production. Sure they have a FireWire version for laptop/iMac owners, but in place of another box with another power brick taking up another (often scarce) port, I got a tiny little PCI card that goes in the box and is never seen or heard from again. I understand not everyone needs tons of storage, or dedicated audio/video hardware, but if you do, desktop can't be beat.