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   From: joelcrump@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/24/2025 2:24 PM, Alan wrote:   
      
   >> [For a] preassembled system,   
   >> Apple's are not the best value, unless you just *have* to have macOS.   
   >   
   > You cannot separate the value of the hardware from the value of the   
   > software it runs.   
      
      
   So you want macOS, I get it, that's fine, you do you.  But you're paying   
   through the *nose*, for the so-called privilege.   
      
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   Joel W. Crump   
      
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