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I understand they want to make it look clean, but they show no cords at all in most of the pictures. There's also no mention of battery life, so it must be powered.

If they're going to lie about the cords, what else are they lying about? Also $699?? WTF?

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Defining "lying" as "doesn't have cords in promo images" is really really weird. You don't see too many Dell ads with cords flying down to their towers either.

There's a picture of a guy using it (with zero cords) to take a conference call, which goes a bit beyond a flattering studio photo. It allegedly depicts real world use.

Towers tend to hide cords behind them. This is shown on a desk next to a monitor, as if it is being used with the monitor. It is photographed at an angle that would show cords if they were present. It looks ridiculous at least.

The monitor shown may be an All-in-One, but then what is the computer doing there?

You don't see it in iMac marketing photos, either, where the screen is illuminated.

At first I disagreed with you, but when I took another look at the images I realized that it does seem a bit dishonest to not show any cables, especially when the images are designed to showcase how "sleek" it is. There's no way a real-life setup would look like what this page is trying to sell.

It's worth noting that the last image on the page has a cable and make the computer look much less sleek - and that's just one cable, you'll probably need power, display, mouse/keyboard, etc.

This is interesting because it shows no wires is desirable.

You could build an almost wireless box - just a little power lead - if you built in whdi or wigig into your little desktop unit but for now tat would push the price up too much. I hope it happens one day.

You can always drill holes to your desk and use tight L-shaped connectors ;-)

While true, seeing as everyone else also seems to do it (Dell, Apple, Lenovo have very similar photos although admittedly not always with a human user in the photos) it seems slightly odd to complain about what are fairly obviously promotional images?

It's odd to complain about false advertising? I've seen computer manufactures avoid showing cables by hiding them, but the images on this website seem to imply that it operates cordlessly.

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