Look at Microsoft’s Fancy Surface Studio All-in-One PC

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If you had enough ($2999) to buy the lowest-level Surface Studio (8 GB RAM, i5, 1 TB HD), and instead got a 27 inch iMac, upgraded to the 4 GHz i7, 16 GB of RAM, and 3 TB HD, you'd still have $150 left over. Is the touch screen really worth it?
 

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If you had enough ($2999) to buy the lowest-level Surface Studio (8 GB RAM, i5, 1 TB HD), and instead got a 27 inch iMac, upgraded to the 4 GHz i7, 16 GB of RAM, and 3 TB HD, you'd still have $150 left over. Is the touch screen really worth it?
Depends why you are buying a desktop in the first place.
I will say that Microsoft's touchscreens are phenomenal and the pen support is really useful to a lot of people. Personally I'd never buy either of them, but I can see more uses for an all-in one with a touch/pen screen than one without.
 

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I think it's being targeted at a non-general audience. Here, Mike "Gabe" Krahulik of Penny Arcade goes into his use of a pre-release model, and how it feels better than any graphics tablet he's used. There are a lot of people out there using these tools, and will pay for them, so improving the state of the art there is definitely useful.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surface-studio
 

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If you had enough ($2999) to buy the lowest-level Surface Studio (8 GB RAM, i5, 1 TB HD), and instead got a 27 inch iMac, upgraded to the 4 GHz i7, 16 GB of RAM, and 3 TB HD, you'd still have $150 left over. Is the touch screen really worth it?
No, but to have a big-ass tablet is probably right in the wheelhouse for some professions.

Not mine, but I can completely see why an artist would want it (the pen support is amazing... Apple is perhaps years behind here). If I were an architect or GC. The iMac isn't portable.

Given how efficient W10 is 8GB RAM should be enough for most people but damn, I wish it came with 16 standard.
 

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The industrial design of that thing is pretty great, and I would love to work on a screen like that. But the PC they've attached it to is a significant downgrade from my desktop--if I'm going to be non-portable, I want the benefits of being non-portable, and those benefits don't include mobile-class processors or GPUs. If Microsoft came out with a version of that panel that just works with a regular PC, I'd buy one immediately.