Don’t see a problem with the iMac cables

Even though everyone’s getting very excited about the new iMac, there have been a few comments about the ports lining up in a vertical row at the back being a problem - in typical Apple style, they run from smallest at the top to largest at the bottom.

I can’t see the problem with this. If all the cables fall in a vertical plane, you bundle them together at the point where the lowest one joins the bunch, and then feed them across to the stand and down to the desktop. If you use something like the spiral conduit that’s out there on the market, you’ll end up with one big ’snake’ that can be routed wherever you want it to go. Which is far better than the average PC, which has cables coming out at a variety of points both horizontal and vertical, resulting in a huge messy pigtail.

Definitely the sign of an obsessive-compulsive Type-A hair-trigger geek - cables neatly plaited, and very likely labelled, too.

(I’m guilty on both counts…)

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