XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-24 15:07, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/24/2025 5:30 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.   
   >>   
   >> I notice you can't refute the point I made.   
   >>   
   >> The value is in the WHOLE SYSTEM.   
   >   
   >   
   > I'm getting that with Windows 11 on a mini PC from China, though.   
      
   Bully for you.   
      
   > Is it as fast as a new Mac, no, but it's surprisingly usable.  I'm   
   > watching a video from Amazon Prime on my TV with the sound in my   
   > headphones, just like I had with my big desktop I destroyed.  Who   
   > needs Apple.   
   Not you...   
      
   ...but then you won't actual reveal what you found wrong with it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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