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  • Bought a semi-low-end laptop

    From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Dec 24 19:08:22 2025
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    For my GF. I had to have it shipped to me first, then re-ship, to get
    it to her. But that works out OK, it'll get to me around when I have
    the money to ship it to her. $400 plus sales tax on Amazon, Windows 11
    Home on four threads and 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD. Nothing amazing, but
    she's someone who deserves something more than her smartphone, it's just prohibitively expensive relative to her situation. So this will be a
    leap forward for someone who has a full life including being online.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1XQLV25?th=1 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231803/intel-processor-n100-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz/specifications.html
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    Joel W. Crump

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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Dec 25 02:08:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:08:22 -0500, Joel W. Crump wrote:

    For my GF. I had to have it shipped to me first, then re-ship, to get
    it to her. But that works out OK, it'll get to me around when I have
    the money to ship it to her. $400 plus sales tax on Amazon, Windows 11
    Home on four threads and 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD. Nothing amazing, but
    she's someone who deserves something more than her smartphone, it's just prohibitively expensive relative to her situation. So this will be a
    leap forward for someone who has a full life including being online.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1XQLV25?th=1 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231803/intel-
    processor-n100-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz/specifications.html

    Only 256 GB! Weren't you bitching long and loudly about 256 GB Macs
    recently?
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Dec 24 21:28:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 12/24/25 9:08 PM, rbowman wrote:

    For my GF. I had to have it shipped to me first, then re-ship, to get
    it to her. But that works out OK, it'll get to me around when I have
    the money to ship it to her. $400 plus sales tax on Amazon, Windows 11
    Home on four threads and 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD. Nothing amazing, but
    she's someone who deserves something more than her smartphone, it's just
    prohibitively expensive relative to her situation. So this will be a
    leap forward for someone who has a full life including being online.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1XQLV25?th=1
    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231803/intel-
    processor-n100-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz/specifications.html

    Only 256 GB! Weren't you bitching long and loudly about 256 GB Macs
    recently?


    Ah, but you see, it's not the fact that 256 is an option so much as that
    it's a ploy to make larger amounts obscenely expensive. Take the Mac
    mini, as an example, the 256 GB model's price is something a lot of
    people would take seriously, but bump it up to 512 GB or add RAM and the
    price becomes outrageous. If one happens to be satisfied with the base
    specs, it might work out OK, or if price isn't an object of the decision
    I suppose, but it goes to show why Apple isn't really mainstream gear.
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    Joel W. Crump
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