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

-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:

Joel is 'faster = better' until it comes to even faster systems
than what he owns ... at which point he flips his story to "overpriced".

 
If you compare Apple hardware from the same time I bought my parts,
it'd be about the same speeds.

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I already have.  Sorry, but they're not.
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I've already posted that your CPU is slower.  Ditto your SSD too.  RAM
hasn't been fully checked out, but architecturally its not on-chip and
out on a bus, so its invariably slower too.
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For the first one, your motherboard allows one generation of CPU upgrade
(from Gen 10 to 11); I'd figure that a Rocket Lake i7 such as the 11700
would probably provide parity; looks like $218 at Amazon.
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For the second one, this is why I noted about RAID0'ing your boot drive,
as that's what it requires pre-PCI 5.  For you, it needs a second NVMe
module; +$100.  But since your motherboard's open NVMe slot's PCI 3, not
PCI 4, this strategy still won't provide adequate gain for parity vs the
Studio.  But it would be roughly on par to the old 2020 Mini, so I'd
give this one to you if you stop trying to compare to the Studio.
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For the third one, you'd have to replace the motherboard for a faster
RAM bus architecture, so no luck for you there for anything cheap.
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TL;DR:  your options to get to parity with Apple hardware of that time
means that you need to invest another $300 at today's prices, which put
your total spent to date at ~$1450 (that we know of), and it looks like
it would still fall short in the third hardware metric. But it is about
as good as you can expect to do with the starting point your 'expert'
chose for you.

In other words, the Mac would be half a second faster on a typical
operation, at most, who the hell cares, my computer also didn't cost
as much as you are adding up, it's a little under $1000.  The Winblows
license is not really part of it, I'm not even using it anymore.

--
Joel W. Crump

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