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   From: recscuba_google@huntzinger.com   
      
   On 8/24/25 21:22, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:55:27 -0400, -hh wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/24/25 16:39, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Except for how you've utterly missed the Sam Vimes theory of boots.   
   >   
   > If Macs really did last longer and have better build quality than other   
   > PCs, you might have a point. As it is, you don’t.   
      
   And you were so close! /s   
      
   Case in point, I traded-in a 2017 Mac laptop last year for a $150   
   credit...that's a 7 year useful life.  In contrast, I also had a 2016   
   Dell laptop that went tits-up in 2019 with a swollen battery, and its   
   replacement died in 2021 with a failed USB-C port, despite being in a   
   static 'desktop' setting for most of that time due to CoVid telework.   
      
   By my accounting, that's two sets of "cheap boots".   
      
      
   > Remember, Apple has even given up on any kind of future upgradeability of   
   > basic things like RAM on its current machines; they are all just glorified   
   > laptops now.   
   Since something like 80% of the domestic PC market (Mac+Windows) is   
   buying laptops, just how is that statement any sort of criticism?   
      
   Because in case you hadn't noticed, laptops passed the point of being   
   the "good enough" for general office productivity a good decade ago, and   
   the Enterprise IT support strategy was that instead of trying to do any   
   upgrades to them, to just image & replace entire machines.   
      
   As such, the realm of hands-on incremental component repairs/upgrades   
   has been increasingly just the DIY home geek hobbyist niche, which is   
   probably down to somewhere under 5% of the total US market these days.   
      
   -hh   
      
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