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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-09-01 1:23 p.m., -hh wrote:   
   > On 9/1/25 08:34, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>   
   >> To be fair, Apple's devices can be obtained for a fair price in their   
   >> default configurations. Sure, the storage might be smaller than   
   >> expected and they might have less RAM than computers at the same   
   >> price, but the screen quality and battery life need to be considered.   
   >> However, upgrading that default configuration is prohibitively expensive.   
   >   
   > "Expensive" ... if one only focuses on "TB of Storage" and ignores the   
   > net performance levels obtained.   
   >   
   > A classical example is assuming that all SSDs perform the same, so since   
   > one can get a 1TB SATA SSD for $25 at WalMart, that therefore any other   
   > SSD configuration must be a 'rip off'///   
   >   
   >   
   > No matter how much higher its bandwidth is:   
   >   
   > SATA-3 SSD: ~550MB/sec   
   > NVMe PCIe Gen 3 SSD:  ~3,500MB/sec   
   > 2022 Mac Studio M1 Max: ~5000(R) to 6,500(W) MB/sec   
      
   I notice you omit Gen 4, which was already available on PCs in 2022.   
      
   According to the PCI Express table on Wikipedia, they can get to 7,877   
   GB/s at x4 which is the most common rate. Did you purposefully ignore   
   that information to make the Apple "deal" on storage prices appear better?   
      
   What about PCI Express 5.0, which is also already available on PCs and   
   doubles that rate?   
      
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