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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:33:26 -0500
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On 1/15/25 12:02 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:33:48 -0500, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
> wrote in <vm8o1d$313ov$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> On 1/15/25 10:46 AM, Joel wrote:
>>> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Linux is the only option worth pursuing.  macOS is weird and
>>>>> expensive, Windows is bloatware beyond belief.
>>>>
>>>> macOS is free. Just needs a $600 mac to run it on.
>>>
>>> Windows Home preinstalled on volume-produced gear is virtually free,
>>> self-installed Linux completely free, but yes that "$600" you cite
>>> isn't cheap for the device it buys.  That OS upgrades are free is just
>>> to incentivize buying/using an Apple device.
>>>
>>>
>> Where said "isn't cheap" $600 is ~half what Joel's already spent...
>>
>> ...or for when the Lady protests too much, after deducting off his
>> alleged $200 mistake of a second Windows OS license, roughly 50% less
>> ($600 vs ($1150 - $200 = $950).
> 
> Having played the "buy a mac mini to get MacOS" game, I can tell
> you that I was very disappointed.

IMO the mini had historically been Apple's product to promote desktop 
customers to migrate from Windows, but its shortcomings have centered 
around how 90% of the market ignored it because it wasn't a laptop, and 
the other 10% are tower fetish geeks who were offended because it 
couldn't easily address every possible niche/corner use case.


> The Mac Studio we have now is a few steps up, but it's not worth
> what we paid for it.  

The Studio's now two months from being 3 years old, and pretty much all 
its gotten to date has been a CPU bump.  It was envisioned as the being 
a midpoint between the mini & Mac Pro, effectively a replacement for the 
iMac Pro, whose MSRP started at $5K.

> It's clunky, and the security policies on
> it are one-offs.  It's a UNIX system, but they've bolted on extras
> that are downright unfriendly.


Just which security policies are so constraining?  Likewise, are these 
so-called 'unfriendly' elements something which affects the Pareto 
Principle 80% use case, or is it more akin to a niche/corner use case?


> Meanwhile Mrs. vallor's new workstation is still waiting in the wings;
> turns out, she expanded the scope of "make a space on her desk"
> into "re-organize her office". ;)
> 
> fu2: cola

Good for her.  Let me know if you're going to then be selling the 
Studio, as I'd not mind picking up another one at the right specs/price.

-hh