XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-24 16:06, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/24/2025 6:45 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Apple is still weird, even if it somehow makes such great use of   
   >>> their paltry offerings of hardware.   
   >>   
   >> HOW is it weird? I'm guessing by "weird" you really mean, "does   
   >> something in a way /I/ don't like.   
   >   
   >   
   > It's not a matter of what I like, it's functionality.  Microsoft puts   
   > the special touch of forethought to make it intuitive.   
      
   And yet you cannot articulate a single example.   
      
   Got it.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >> And what makes their offerings "paltry" exactly?   
   >   
   >   
   > Are you kidding?  Do the comparisons of devices offered.  You'll see it   
   > fast.  Apple is expensive.   
      
   More expensive, yes. Stipulated.   
      
   In what way are the devices they offer "paltry".   
      
   Or do you just not know what the word actually means?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>> I get results [from using computers].  Everyone makes mistakes,   
   >>> everyone has karma, that's what killed my computer, but I bounced   
   >>> back hard.   
   >   
   >> Nothing killed my MacBook Pro except extreme old age, and even then, I   
   >> could have fixed it, if I'd wanted to.   
   >   
   >   
   > I will salvage the parts from my dead computer, when I have real money   
   > to spend on a fresh motherboard.  But for now, the mini PC has replaced it.   
   So you've had to buy two computers...   
      
   ...so what is their combined cost?   
      
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