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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:50:26 -0000 (UTC)
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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>> A Mac mini would be $1400.  What I could build for that is
>>> unbelievable.  Getting macOS to me isn't so amazing, Linux does OK.  I
>>> think Apple is like M$ selling products to high-end users first.
>> 
>> What do you do that you would need a Mac Mini configured to cost that much?
> 
> 
> I use the capacity of my CPU and RAM under Linux, it would only be
> more burdened under macOS with needing to run WinARM in a VM, rather
> than having native Wine with an x86-64 PC with Linux.

Then don't buy hardware (you can't afford?) that isn't suitable for your
workload. 

Note that WINE works on Arm Macs. No need for VMs if the you the software
works with WINE.