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From: Mikey <Mikey.Smith@aol.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:00:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-20, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 
>
>
>

MAC computers are designed for click and point users. Just sayin...