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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

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On 4/28/17, 12:44 PM, in article op.yze7r1pejs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:

... 
>>> No, we're considering someone buying a whole computer with or without an
>>> SSD.
>>> 
>> Well, you can get SSD and Fusion drives on Macs. So no issue there.
> 
> I thought you said they didn't do SSDs.

Not by default but they are there as an option.

>>>> But, sure, as I have said I wish Apple would move to better drives. And a
>>>> better file system for that matter. I have been saying that for years. With
>>>> APFS they are finally getting the better file system -- but even with that
>>>> it
>>>> is new and I am sure still needs maturing.
>>>> 
>>> Didn't Apple change around the same time as Windows went from FAT to NTFS?
>> 
>> They updated their old file system, but it was still tied to the old one
>> (from HFS to HFS+... and they have made some other changes). It is LONG past
>> time they moved to a better one. They are currently in the process and iOS
>> just migrated to it, but macOS has not.
> 
> So like FAT to FAT32?  Egad!

Well, without the use of 8.3 in the background, sorta. :)

>> And you will not see me apologizing for Apple being behind here. Not that I
>> think it is the worst thing in the world (the slow drives are a bigger
>> issue) I think they have been FAR too slow to get to where they are now in
>> terms of file systems.
> 
> It's one company versus 100s of PC manufacturers.  Which is a main reason why
> I go with PCs.  Choice, competition.

I see Apple as one of those choices... and they generally serve me better.
They offer the tools that let me do more for less money.


... 
>> I use Time Machine as a backup. My wife's hard drive died -- so I created a
>> second account on one of my kid's machine and just migrated her account.
>> Then she got a MacBook Air with a smaller SSD and I migrated her account to
>> there, but left out some items because of the smaller drive.
>> 
>> All worked very well.
>> 
>> As far me I have been migrating my account from one computer to the next
>> since before OS X even existed. Should likely do a clean install one of
>> these years.
> 
> I didn't freshly install for about 17 years.  Just kept upgrading the OS from
> Windows 95 on a 486 all the way to Windows 8 on an i5 and swapping one
> component at a time, whichever was the bottleneck.

I do wish Apple made it easier to swap components... no doubt that is a
weakness with their systems.

-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-27 23:51 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-27 16:06 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 00:57 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-27 17:23 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 14:12 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 09:47 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 17:51 +0100
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 11:07 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 19:37 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 12:19 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 20:44 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 12:56 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 21:18 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 14:19 -0700

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