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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I'm not happy about having to do this, but it's the lesser of evils.
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With regard to the lesser of two evils...(*)
I've been at a friend's house to fix some stuff on his Mac such as a non-working printer. To be honest, I like MacOS / OSX. I liked it 15 years ago, as well. Because Windows basically has become a %^^&*$* rolling release, with the GUI almost changing each time I open a window (how's that for learning to deal with change?!) and options having been ripped out of the OS (colors, window customizations, font settings....?), I've been seriously looking into Apple.
For like 10 minutes.
Je5V5 effin crap. They never learn. I can choose a 21.5 inch iMac, or a 27 inch one, but I want a 24 inch one. These machines can't be upgraded. Besides, I don't want a different screen: I have a perfectly fine, industrial-looking hardware-calibrated Eizo display that I wish to use another 5 years.
So, looking into the Mac Mini... upgrading it to 16GB costs €240. Swapping the HDD to an SSD costs €240 as well. In the Windows world, where you can upgrade stuff yourself, 16GB RAM costs like €100. An NVME SSD can be had for €100 as well.
In the end, after applying every upgrade possible, I've got a €1500 Mac Mini that has half the power, half the memory, a quarter of the disk space (and no SSD: merely a fusion drive), and no GTX 1070 compared to my self-built Windows box. Granted, the Mini is a lot smaller, but I can build a comparable or more powerful Intel NUC for less than €750 if I want a small system.
Configuring a computer comparable to my Windows rig puts me in the MacPro camp, which is a 2013 machine, and the configuration will break the f***** bank thrice over.
So, IMHO, my old opinion stays: If you need or want raw power, as much as you can get, and you're using a Mac, you're someone with too much money, or a zealot that refuses to use Windows.
I know, I could do about 80% of the stuff I do on a Mac Mini. Heck, I could do it on my old 2008 rig (that I gave away for peanuts last year) or laptop if need be, but for the other 20%, I need enough computing power to not go sit around for 10 minutes when I click a button.
Thus, my idea to go and take a look at a Mac go into the trash for another 10 years or so. Maybe they'll have learned by then, but I doubt it.
(*)(Always those *$%^&%^& printers. My GF's Brother, which *I* recommended to her, also drops his WIFI connection all the time, just like those printers 10 years ago. My wired Brother, 5 years old now, NEVER, EVER gets disconnected. When I click Print, it prints, even if it has been asleep for two months. I'm going to give my GF's printer a static IP, somehow, if I can find it on the network, and see if it fixes it.)