XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-11 15:00, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/11/25 2:36 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > They are, though, the cult will accept the extortion.   
      
   Once again, you imagine that people who don't agree with you can't be   
   rational.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>> 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > It shouldn't be hundreds upon hundreds, of dollars.   
   But it is...   
      
   ...75% MORE expensive from Samsung...   
      
   ...the company you CHOSE to compare Apple against.   
      
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