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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:38:10 -0800
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On 2024-11-28 19:24, 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By considering the actual performance of a USB 3.2 storage device?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You read exactly like the superficially "expert" 1337 Linux dweeb you are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "USB???? Uggh... ...USB sux, man!".
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't suck for an external drive, using an external drive sucks
>>>>> as a continuous solution.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 1. That's not an answer. That's saying the same thing by different words.
> 
> 
> It's an answer to Apple's arbitrary hand-holding of what you can do
> with your expensive device from them.

I asked you why using an external drive on a computer that isn't going 
anywhere "sucks"...

....and you can't come up with a single actual reason.


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

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.

> 
> 
>>>> And yet you won't use a SATA drive even if you wouldn't notice the
>>>> difference [from the speed of an NVMe drive]...
>>>
>>> Using SATA when NVMe is an option isn't elite enough, right.
>>
>> It's seems you're looking for "bragging rights", not utility.
> 
> 
> 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 ...)

An Apple purchase is VERY practical.

It works, and keeps right on working.

I mean, I've never had a problem getting any monitor that's supposed to 
work with my gear to work.