Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

On 2024-11-23 12:26, Joel wrote:

It suggests that people have disposable income that they put toward
Apple gear, incessantly, it's ridiculous how little storage you get by
default with their devices, I had a 1 TB NVMe drive as a part, it's
still going 3 1/2 years later, at the time the iMac or Mac mini
would've had a small amount of storage, and still cost a lot.  You're
a sucker if you use Apple's crap hardware and software.
 

I realize this is a bit unfair, because the M4 Mac Mini just came out, but...
Comparing CPU benchmarks to the i5-10400 in his 1337 Linux machine (and looking at the M1 which was available in 2020 when his processor choice came out and the M2 that was available when he built his system:
Single thread:
i5: 2,568   M4: 4,589  M2: 3,903  M1: 3,687
CPU Mark:
i5: 12,118  M4: 24,394  M2: 15,575  M1: 14,154
Even the M1 was faster than Joel's carefully researched choice.
The Mac Mini wasn't upgraded to M2 until after Joel built is "superior" Linux machine, but...
...the M1 Mac Mini had support for 4K video OOTB and could run a 4K and a 6K monitor simultaneously.
All for $700USD.
But I guess there wouldn't have been "bragging rights" with his 1337 crew.
:-)