Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

In article <cna4uj9rqu12nhgg4r74cne6jo0uacgis2@4ax.com>,
 Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Johnny LaRue <xxxxxx@yyyyyy.zzz> 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.

>
Yes, Apple costs more than Dell.   And BMWs cost more than Chevys.   And
steak costs more than chicken.
>
What is your point?

 
 
It just seems stupid, I'm intelligent enough to handle Linux, why
would I screw around with Apple?

I can "handle Linux" too.  I just no longer want to waste my time on
that.   I have better things to do with my time.   

Because in the long run, money is easier to accumulate than time.   For
all of us.

But what is the alleged "sacrifice of control"?   What does that even
mean?    My Macs are somehow "out of control"?

 
 
More on the hardware side, the Mac mini is a pretty nifty solution to
the "regular desktop" demand for an Apple device, and I could use one,
but it nevertheless lacks the expandability of my real tower desktop
system.

Ah yes.   The old "expandability" thing. 

Yeah, that used to be important to me too.    But I no longer care about
that.  I just buy what I need.    If I need more later, then I buy a new
one and sell the old one. 

Just like we do with cars, microwave ovens, TVs, phones and every other
consumer product on the planet.   You can't "expand" any of those.   So
why worry about "expanding" something as common as a modern computer
that costs less than $700?

Back in the days when $1,500 got you 8K of RAM (yes K), no hard drive
(hard drives alone were once $5,000 for 10 MB.  Yes Megabytes), no green
screen monitor (that was another $500), one 5" floppy drive and no
software except maybe a primitive DOS and a BASIC interpreter,
expandability was very important.   You had to protect your initial
investment. 

And that was 1980 dollars.    That's like spending $6,000 today on a
computer.   Or $8,000 including a monitor and some software.   Or
$28,000 including that 10MB hard drive.