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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > WWDC June 3rd 2019. MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY!
 
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Penisaurus Sex
Feb 3, 2009

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They kind of can’t, at this point, because they hitched themselves to TB3 so hard.

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Feb 3, 2009

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wooger posted:

Yep. There is no GPU on that thing even, it’s such poor value compared to the equivalent NUC. And those upgrade prices... £540 to go to 1TB £540 to go to 32GB.

It remains the case (as for 10+ years) that most potential (and many actual) Apple desktop users would prefer an xMac (desktop CPU, mini tower, 2 GPU slots, upgradeable ram/SSD) over anything they sell.

This would also make Macs an option for anyone who wants to game.

Add RAM on your own and use Thunderbolt for external storage.

I've never understood the fascination with having massive storage in the new (post 2015 really) Apple products. Get what you need for programs, OS, and maybe a current project, and expand the rest via TB3.

That's not how a PC works obviously but that's the best way to make Apple devices work.

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Penisaurus Sex posted:

Add RAM on your own and use Thunderbolt (or, more likely, the 10GbE) for external storage.

I've never understood the fascination with having massive storage in the new (post 2015 really) Apple products. Get what you need for programs, OS, and maybe a current project, and expand the rest via TB3/NAS.

That's not how a PC works obviously but that's the best way to make Apple devices work.
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