XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-11-23 13:49, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 11/23/25 4:29 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>> To go from 256 GB storage on the Mac mini, to 512 GB, is $200.   
   >>>>>>>>> To go from 16 GB RAM to 24 GB is another $200.  These are not   
   >>>>>>>>> competitive prices.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The point you continue to miss is that a user isn't buying a   
   >>>>>>>> bunch of components. He or she is buying a complete SYSTEM.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> So rational people look at the value of that complete system,   
   >>>>>>>> and base their buying decisions on that value.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Heh, dude, you're missing the point, they're blatantly   
   >>>>>>> overcharging. The *smallest* storage should be 512 GB, in the   
   >>>>>>> first place, not a $200 upgrade.  Apple is thieves.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Nope.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> They're offering products for sale...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ...and people are CHOOSING to buy them.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yeah but why the hell is that? Why is 256 GB storage the default,   
   >>>>> in 2025?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I don't know, but I DO know many people with 1TB drives who only   
   >>>> have 100GB or so on them.   
   >>>   
   >>> Perhaps, but it's still pathetic on gear that's not competitively   
   >>> priced.   
   >>>   
   >>>>  >  And doubling it is $200 extra?!  Do you wipe your ass with money   
   >>>> > and flush it down the toilet?   
   >>>> Again: what matters to a rational consumer is if the whole PACKAGE   
   >>>> is worth the cost.   
   >>>   
   >>> In other words - you're paying a lot for the software.  That's the   
   >>> only major difference in buying a Mac.  And yet their software is   
   >>> mediocre!   
   >>   
   >> Look!   
   >>   
   >> Another claim you won't substantiate!   
   >   
   >   
   > That you don't consider macOS mediocre only shows your brain damage, Alan.   
   >   
      
   That you can't articulate HOW it is supposedly "mediocre" shows your   
   lack of intellectual courage.   
      
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