But, it's smaller, outputs less heat overall (though, the keyboard is often too hot to touch if you rest your hands on keys or—god forbid—if you accidentally to

But, it's smaller, outputs less heat overall (though, the keyboard is often too hot to touch if you rest your hands on keys or—god forbid—if you accidentally touch metal between keys), and it sometimes stalls all display output for 30 to 60 seconds at a time while running all cores at 100% for no discernible reason at all between once a week or 15 times a day depending on its mood. Let's see your tower do that. Stockholm Computing Syndrome? As far as price: company bought it. Always change jobs right before an Apple hardware refresh event. If it wasn't essentially "free" from my end, I'd have gone with a 27" iMac.