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Moving the ports from the stand to the back of the display remains the single most baffling decision of the iMac line, regardless of everything else. The stand
by starkparker 2y ago
Moving the ports from the stand to the back of the display remains the single most baffling decision of the iMac line, regardless of everything else.
The stand is stationary regardless of the display angle and way more conducive to stable cable management. The last few generations of iMac made removing the stand technically not a user-serviceable action, so manufacturing USB-hub stand risers custom-fit to iMacs is practically its own industry.
A device still bound by mandates to be unnecessarily thin and light, and with an arbitrarily non-removable stand, can still make the stand a few centimeters thicker, run a fixed line from the logic board and into the stand, and put some or all of the ports inside it.
Hell, go wild and make the bottom of the stand a full inch thick, and you could put a user-accessible m.2 port in it,[1] but that damages the justification for upcharging $200 to add 256GB of storage.
1: https://www.amazon.com/PULWTOP-Adapter-Accessories-Docking-Included/dp/B0BWHD9YZL https://www.amazon.com/PULWTOP-Adapter-Accessories-Docking-I...