Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:18:38 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 72 Message-ID: References: <150420171210307864%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:411963 sci.physics:631130 alt.privacy.anon-server:59293 comp.sys.mac.system:105775 alt.comp.os.windows-10:41217 alt.cellular-phone-tech:1708 On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:56:38 +0100, Snit wrote: > On 4/28/17, 12:44 PM, in article op.yze7r1pejs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson > Sword" 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. They're living in the past. They should at least have the OS on a small SSD. I used to build custom computers and the default was an SSD for the OS and major applications, and a hard disk for large data. >>>>> 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. :) Did they get rid of those blasted forks? >>> 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. They are not a choice of many. They are a single choice for making a mac. I consider that unwise. It's a monopoly. >>> 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. It's their crazy form over function designs. Makes it harder to change things that don't quite fit. Still, a hacksaw can help. -- What's meaner than a pit bull with AIDS? The guy that gave it to him.