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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:26:51 -0700
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On 2025-03-20 10:43, Joel 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.
> 

Sorry, but that is completely dodging the question.