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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:31:08 -0500
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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:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Apple rips people off.  Why is 256 GB [storage]
>>>>>>>>>> still the basic option?  In almost 2025?  Retarded.
>>>>>>>>> Better question:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why do so many people find that it's worth it to pay that much 
>>>>>>>>> to have a
>>>>>>>>> Mac?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Brain-damaged Sprite guzzlers can't handle Linux, and want to be 
>>>>>>>> hand-
>>>>>>>> held by Apple, what else is new.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Riiiiiiiiight.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Everyone who values things differently than you must be "brain- 
>>>>>>> damaged".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LOL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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".
>>>>>
>>>>> It can, yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because you don't buy an SSD just to have one on a shelf.
>>>>
>>>> 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. 
>>>
>>> No, that's not what I said or meant at all.
>>>
>>> You buy a computer SYSTEM.
>>>
>>> It's value to the end user is what the whole SYSTEM can do.
>>>
>>> Does Apple charge a premium for expanding the storage? Absolutely.
>>>
>>> Is it worth it in order to get a personal computer system that works 
>>> as well as a Mac does? Absolutely.
>>>
>>> And having empty space isn't "elite".
>>
>> 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