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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 20:33:20 -0800
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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?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 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]...
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 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.