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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:27:58 -0500
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On 1/16/25 12:40 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:33:26 -0500, -hh wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Everything Apple sells in its “Macintosh” range is effectively a laptop
> now, just packaged differently. In its move to ARM chips, it has
> completely sacrificed all the traditional expandability that came with
> desktop/workstation machines.

Yeah, so?

Over 80% of the total PC market today are laptops.

The old school paradigm of getting elbows-deep into component upgrades 
is a niche that's going to continue to be considered irrelevant by the 
mainstream:  I've already seen some components whose prices are far 
higher than what they _should_ be, as state-of-the-shelf commodities.


-hh