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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Two points
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 05:44:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 21:47:59 -0500, -hh wrote:

> On 12/1/24 7:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 14:29:48 -0500, -hh wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/29/24 4:54 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 29 Nov 2024 14:52:53 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 2) I own two Mac mini's, which are sitting in a drawer.  They were
>>>>> made from notebook equipment, and they are crap.
>>>>
>>>> Since they switched to ARM, everything named “Mac” from Apple is now
>>>> a glorified notebook anyway.
>>>
>>> Which makes it sound like notebooks haven't advanced in the past 20
>>> years to be as powerful as many desktops.
>> 
>> They are fundamentally compromised just from the form factor.
> 
> Your opinion doesn't really matter, because Free Market decided a long
> time ago that notebooks had passed the 'Good Enough' test ...

I’m sure the market likes them a lot, but the market cannot change the 
laws of physics either: I can always do more with the resources of a 
desktop than I can with an equivalently-specced laptop, if I don’t need 
the mobility of the latter.

> First, it's not you, but the user's workflow which determines what the
> sustained load may be.

I do content creation a fair bit. Sure, most users aren’t doing that. Most 
users don’t need workstations, either.