Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

A Mac mini would be $1400.  What I could build for that is
unbelievable.  Getting macOS to me isn't so amazing, Linux does OK.  I
think Apple is like M$ selling products to high-end users first.

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What do you do that you would need a Mac Mini configured to cost that much?

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I use the capacity of my CPU and RAM under Linux, it would only be
more burdened under macOS with needing to run WinARM in a VM, rather
than having native Wine with an x86-64 PC with Linux.

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Sorry, but that is completely dodging the question.

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OK, let me explain, the device would need to have Windows 11 running
in a VM, and mind you that isn't a complaint because remaining with
x86 just for Wine wouldn't make sense, Apple was smart to dump
IntelAMD.  It's convenient that I can operate this app under Wine,
with Linux and x86 hardware, but in the future I would love to see
Linux for ARM on a new device.

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As was already explained to you, that's false.
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WiNE is available to run ARM Windows apps on the Mac.
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To address your question, directly, I upped the specs to give me 32 GB
RAM and such.  That which would give me what's needed to make macOS
shine as a driver OS.

But since that proceeded from a false assumption...

  I would as it turns out be fine using Wine under macOS, you were right
about that part of it, but it doesn't change the desired specs of my
theoretical Mac mini, they just go from "pretty good" to "really
good".