>Power supply outside is a great feature (they charge an extra £100 for it on a shuttle)
Charging for something does not in itself make it great.
>Apart from saving on a fan it makes it a lot quicker and easier to get to market if you don't
>have to meet mutually incompatible electrical safety regs from 50 different countries.
Well, one's the testicular reason and the other is a manufacturing benefit not a
specific improvement to the device from the consumer perspective.
BTW You can get fanless supplies.
The fact is that all the components aren't in the box.
My telly seems to cope with the power supply inside, would you want a separate power brick for your telly? The dvd player? the hifi? All of a sudden you have lots of power bricks next to each other that are each hoping to use ambient cooling.
It does make the box small and pretty, and it might be less so with an inbuilt supply.
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>Power supply outside is a great feature
>Power supply outside is a great feature (they charge an extra £100 for it on a shuttle)
Charging for something does not in itself make it great.
>Apart from saving on a fan it makes it a lot quicker and easier to get to market if you don't
>have to meet mutually incompatible electrical safety regs from 50 different countries.
Well, one's the testicular reason and the other is a manufacturing benefit not a
specific improvement to the device from the consumer perspective.
BTW You can get fanless supplies.
The fact is that all the components aren't in the box.
My telly seems to cope with the power supply inside, would you want a separate power brick for your telly? The dvd player? the hifi? All of a sudden you have lots of power bricks next to each other that are each hoping to use ambient cooling.
It does make the box small and pretty, and it might be less so with an inbuilt supply.