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

On 11/27/24 3:31 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-11-27 11:45, -hh wrote:

On 11/27/24 2:29 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-11-27 11:13, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
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Apple rips people off.  Why is 256 GB [storage]
still the basic option?  In almost 2025?  Retarded.

Better question:
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Why do so many people find that it's worth it to pay that much to have a
Mac?
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:-)

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Brain-damaged Sprite guzzlers can't handle Linux, and want to be hand-
held by Apple, what else is new.

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Riiiiiiiiight.
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Everyone who values things differently than you must be "brain- damaged".
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LOL

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So it reflects having an intact brain, to pay $400 extra for something
i got for barely over $100, 3 1/2 years ago?  "Riiiiight".

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It can, yes.
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Because you don't buy an SSD just to have one on a shelf.

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In other words, because Apple requires these payments, you rationalize
that you didn't really need so much empty space, anyway.  Congrats.
Meanwhile, I already had that much empty space, going back years.  Is
it superfluous?  Maybe.  But then again, it's elite.

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No, that's not what I said or meant at all.
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You buy a computer SYSTEM.
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It's value to the end user is what the whole SYSTEM can do.
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Does Apple charge a premium for expanding the storage? Absolutely.
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Is it worth it in order to get a personal computer system that works as well as a Mac does? Absolutely.
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And having empty space isn't "elite".

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Particularly since having the storage be internal is primarily only a concern today for people who need the mobility of a laptop.

 Exactly so.
 I have a MacBook Air (M3) with a 1TB drive precisely because I need to take it everywhere.

Whereas my desktop doesn't travel, so I didn't need to buy a huge internal SSD for compact packaging - - just enough to exploit its ~7000 MB/s performance level in my primary workflows.  The rest of my data can go on external SSDs at lower price/TB, which is a trade off of performance vs cost ... but they're still several times faster than a HDD on SATA-3, especially in latency.
-hh