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

On 2024-11-28 20:03, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

How can you pretend that a USB-connected
external drive is the same thing as an internal storage drive?

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By considering the actual performance of a USB 3.2 storage device?
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You read exactly like the superficially "expert" 1337 Linux dweeb you are:
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"USB???? Uggh... ...USB sux, man!".

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It doesn't suck for an external drive, using an external drive sucks
as a continuous solution.

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Why?

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If I want two drives, I want them both internal.  However, since I
have no wish to dual-boot Winblows, I don't need a second drive.

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1. That's not an answer. That's saying the same thing by different words.

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It's an answer to Apple's arbitrary hand-holding of what you can do
with your expensive device from them.

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I asked you why using an external drive on a computer that isn't going
anywhere "sucks"...
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...and you can't come up with a single actual reason.

  It's just not as elite, the computer should have capacity for all the
internal hardware you might want, Apple's only option for that is
their starting-at-7-grand Mac Pro.

So the best reason you can muster is a child's brag about "eliteness"?

 

2. Having two drives has nothing to do with whether or not you are
dual-booting. I would have thought an "expert" would have understood that.

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You *can* dual-boot with a single drive, sure, but it sucks balls.  I
wouldn't do it.

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You really aren't very bright about computers if you think that having
more than one drive boils down to whether or not you want to dual boot.

  It would be for me, because I have tons of blank space on my first
SSD, because ya know I didn't get it from Apple.

You really can't see the forest for the trees.

 

And yet you won't use a SATA drive even if you wouldn't notice the
difference [from the speed of an NVMe drive]...

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Using SATA when NVMe is an option isn't elite enough, right.

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It's seems you're looking for "bragging rights", not utility.

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I mean, it is that in a sense, but even just to "feel good" about my
build, I did what I did.  I had a 1 TB SATA SSD, that I'd briefly used
in my old computer, but I bought it for that computer, I wanted to get
the latest and greatest for this one, even if it seems redundant to a
"practical" person like you (who pays for Apple ...)

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An Apple purchase is VERY practical.
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It works, and keeps right on working.
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I mean, I've never had a problem getting any monitor that's supposed to
work with my gear to work.

  Intel and/or M$ failed me, with regard to Win11 and the CPU video with
the new monitor, I admit that.  But the NVIDIA card largely solved
that problem.  It was the right tactic under the circumstances, a
useful upgrade to the system, giving me more options, as well as
support for the monitor in and of itself.

Excuses.
Those you are expert at.