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   From: recscuba_google@huntzinger.com   
      
   On 8/24/25 23:53, vallor wrote:   
   > On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:45:48 -0400, -hh    
   > wrote in <108f52c$2r00q$2@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> On 8/24/25 05:32, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:52:22 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> But no, buying a fucking Mac is not the answer.  It's too expensive.   
   >>>   
   >>> And lacking in expandability and versatility...   
   >>   
   >> Although when one reads of anti-Apple folks who replace their GPU card   
   >> multiple times and then have to replace their fried motherboard from   
   >> their DIY'ing...   
   >>   
   >> ...there's certainly a whole bunch of folk who would benefit from an   
   >> "appliance" that reduces the odds of them fat-fingering breaking it.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> -hh   
   >   
   > There's also this matter of "expandable", which Macs _do_ have,   
   > with the advent of "external pcie", aka "thunderbolt".   
      
   True enough, although with the improvements that USB-C has been getting   
   deployed on the WinTel PC side too, the hardware market is effectively   
   equalizing, especially if one looks to "good enough" metrics.   
      
   The real point here is that one doesn't need to be a brave little geek   
   to open up a PC's guts to perform upgrades on/near the motherboard like   
   we did 30 years ago (when CPU speeds were measured in MHz) to extend a   
   PC's useful life to more than 18 months.  The DIY homebuild niche is   
   thus becoming increasingly less relevant to the general use case.   
      
      
   -hh   
      
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