Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs

On 1/16/25 12:40 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:33:26 -0500, -hh wrote:
 

IMO the mini had historically been Apple's product to promote desktop
customers to migrate from Windows, but its shortcomings have centered
around how 90% of the market ignored it because it wasn't a laptop, and
the other 10% are tower fetish geeks who were offended because it
couldn't easily address every possible niche/corner use case.

 Everything Apple sells in its “Macintosh” range is effectively a laptop
now, just packaged differently. In its move to ARM chips, it has
completely sacrificed all the traditional expandability that came with
desktop/workstation machines.

Yeah, so?
Over 80% of the total PC market today are laptops.
The old school paradigm of getting elbows-deep into component upgrades is a niche that's going to continue to be considered irrelevant by the mainstream:  I've already seen some components whose prices are far higher than what they _should_ be, as state-of-the-shelf commodities.
-hh