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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by tjoff on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:32AM (#36782793)
Such hacks just to get trapped in apples ecosystem? How can that be appealing?
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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by criddell on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:46AM (#36784358)
How are you trapped in the ecosystem?

A Mac Mini can run more software than any of their competitors (you can’t install macOS on a VM on a Windows or Linux host but the reverse is possible).

Even on the hardware side you are free to connect third party drives, monitors, keyboards, etc…

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:11AM (#36785717)
You can actually install Mac os in a VM on Linux or Windows. It's not a technical issue, it's that Apple tries to make it hard to do so.
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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by criddell on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:57AM (#36786422)
Yeah, it’s a legal issue.

My point mostly was that if you buy a Mac Mini, you aren’t really trapped.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by tjoff on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:23AM (#36786881)
The kind of mental gymnastics people go through...
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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by criddell on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:46AM (#36788322)
Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by ecosystem and trapped. Care to elaborate?
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