XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-11 10:56, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/11/25 1:25 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>> Do you even understand that EVERY company charges whatever it   
   >>>>>>>> thinks the traffic will bear?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Why is 256 GB such a prominent option?  Apple is just chintzy.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> So people who need less storage SHOULDN'T be allowed to choose it?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Again: you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not remotely.  In 2021, I built my new PC with a 1 TB NVMe drive.   
   >>>>> Apple still wants to sell you 256 GB, today.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You still have this ridiculous idea that:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What works for YOU...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...must be what works for EVERYONE.   
   >>>   
   >>> You know why I bought a 1 TB NVMe drive?  Because the old computer   
   >>> was upgraded from 1 TB SATA hard drive to SATA SSD.  1 TB was the   
   >>> gold standard.  Let's say we could make that 512 GB.  Why does it   
   >>> have to be 256, with Apple, *now in 2025*?   
   >>   
   >> Because there are people who really don't need more.   
   >>   
   >> I have quite a few clients, friends and family who will never fill a   
   >> 256GB drive.   
   >   
   >   
   > So that's good enough, for you, that some people can be good with 256,   
   > so Apple's just offering a good choice in that model.  Inclusive to   
   > itself that is a good argument but it is lost when you see what the   
   > alternative really is, to not buy from freakin' Apple, and get the 512   
   > GB or 1 TB, get the 32 GB RAM, get the price one is entitled to get and   
   > not Apple's extortion.   
      
   No one is forcing anyone to buy Apple's products, child.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>>> Samsung PCs are one thing.  But even Apple's Mac mini has the   
   >>>>>>> pricey upgrades of specs.   
   >>>>>> You're the one who touted how "grateful" you were to be a Samsung   
   >>>>>> user.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> And now you want to run away!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I wouldn't buy a Samsung laptop.  But I would a Samsung phone.   
   >>>   
   >>>> And now you pivot away from your claim of how wonderful Samsung is!   
   >>>   
   >>> Samsung is wonderful for the products I've bought from it.  Apple   
   >>> offers me nothing.   
   >   
   >> You're the one who decided to die on the hill of Samsung being better   
   >> than Apple on the implied idea that they were less expensive for such   
   >> upgrades.   
   >>   
   >> Don't blame me that you didn't have the wit to check if the actual   
   >> facts matched your attempted brag.   
   >   
   >   
   > Samsung is better than Apple, yes, though I shy away from lambasting you   
   > personally with the matter, because you are a Mac user.   
   They're certainly no better in the one area you were implying Apple was   
   so bad at:   
      
   The price of upgrading from 512GB to 1TB.   
      
   Agreed?   
      
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