For my dad I'm thinking about getting him one for his birthday/Christmas present. He doesn't care for laptops and due to space the monitor also being the PC would work since he's use to desktops. So I was wondering if those things are worth it? I know with it only having 4GBram and whatnot he's not going to be gaming much. But he's just going to use it like a normal everyday PC. So then are these things worth it? I figured for a cooling system he can simply have a fan blowing out it. 

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on December 29, 2014, 04:30:56 PM

For my dad I'm thinking about getting him one for his birthday/Christmas present. He doesn't care for laptops and due to space the monitor also being the PC would work since he's use to desktops. So I was wondering if those things are worth it? I know with it only having 4GBram and whatnot he's not going to be gaming much. But he's just going to use it like a normal everyday PC. So then are these things worth it? I figured for a cooling system he can simply have a fan blowing out it.

My brother had one and it overheated pretty quickly just from normal use (about a year or two into owning it). They might be better now, as this was a few years ago when the all-in-ones were kinda new, so maybe you'll be alright.

They probably would be safer now due to more experience with them. If you use the thing for a few hours except for gaming with a fan blowing on it and you turn the thing off instead of using sleep mode. I don't see them dying for over heating.