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Re: Disappointment

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: Disappointment
Date	2019-06-05 11:08 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<050620191108452345%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References	<qd8lo1$tn0$1@news.albasani.net>

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In article <qd8lo1$tn0$1@news.albasani.net>, Wade Garrett
<wade@cooler.net> wrote:

> Family members have been pretty satisfied Apple product users for years. 
> Of late, we'd been entertaining the notion of selling our crop of aging 
> iPads and iMacs and upgrading to some of the recently announced stuff. 
> Maybe replacing some iMacs with Mac Minis.
> 
> But shoot, most of the base "entry level" iMac and Mini model specs are 
> anemic.

nonsense. 

> And the cost of going from, say, a useless 126 GB SSD to a 
> barely usable 256 is $200. Too much Apple Tax. Hell, i can buy a 500 GB 
> SSD for $50 at retail! Installing enough memory is about the same situation.

yep, and that ssd is about 5-10 times slower.

> And the new iPhones and iPads offer little more than upgraded eye candy 
> and gimmicks- all at too high prices.

also wrong

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Disappointment Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2019-06-05 11:05 -0400
  Re: Disappointment nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-06-05 11:08 -0400
    Re: Disappointment Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2019-06-05 13:24 -0400
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