It depends on what you want.. If you want a non upgradable appliance that kinda just works as long as you do it the Apple way, they are fine.

The advantage of a PC is you can pick your components and upgrade them, but with the downside that you may have issues like the one I described.

Had one just this week. Of course we were zapping a Raspberry Pi with 8,000V.

That's the reason why Windows has more crashes. Very varied hardware. I had an issue where sometimes the machine would fail to come back from sleep or hibernation, which turned out to be because sometimes the PCIe link training either failed or came up with a different result for the GPU. Setting the BIOS to force it to PCIe 4 fixed it. Similarly a friend had random crashing which was fixed by running his RAM slightly below rated speed.

Some people just have crap hardware too. Weak power supplies, failing drives, inadequate cooling.

Macs only do better because Apple tightly controls the hardware. Prebuilt Windows machines are probably similarly reliable, at least from people like Lenovo and maybe Dell.

And he is a known idiot so there is good reason to doubt anything and everything he says and by extension the FBI.

If you look at the credentials of the people in charge of the country right now it's a who's who of has been bloggers and TV show hosts. This was on purpose. The voters gave us Trump and Trump wanted yes men.

Privately every single person in Trump's administration is terrified he's not going to get a third term because if he doesn't then they don't have any of that sweet sweet supreme Court granted presidential immunity and they're all wrong prison.

It's one of the things that makes the right wing so effective. The centrists are really just looking to put a feather in their cap and run some committee meetings. Keep things going smoothly. The right wing is so full crooks and lairs every single one of them is fighting for their freedom because if we ever start enforcing laws again they're all going to prison. Steve Bannon for example has been bailed out twice now by Trump and the Republican party.

There's no such thing my friend. Unless you want to count "State Capitalism", which was supposed to be a transitional phase between Capitalism and Socialism. And which China has ended up in.

But you probably mean something far simpler. In a Capitalist Democracy, the line between public and private services can be drawn in a number of places. In the US, we prefer more private to public, but in Northern Europe, the line is drawn much further on the public side. But still Capitalist Democracies. Canada, I think, is somewhere between the two.

So, there are popular misconceptions on both sides as a result. People on the right tend to see any more towards more public services as Socialism. This is incorrect, the line can move without changing systems. People on the left, perhaps as a failure of the right's rhetoric, think they want Socialism because they want more public services. This is dangerously incorrect. People who think they want Socialism when they actually just want a few more public services, end up agitating for what they don't want. Actual Socialism is entirely incompatible with Democracy. It cannot function if the People make their own economic choices, and as a result, if they make their own political choices. That's why every single Socialist nation immediately became a totalitarian dictatorship. Any totalitarian system, and Socialism very much is one, must be a dictatorship. And nobody wants to live under a dictatorship unless they think they can become the dictator.

Honestly Windows 7 and 10 are fine. Windows 11 is an absolute shit show. I don't care how fast your hardware is it is so painfully slow

There are what, 9-10 times more PCs out there than Macs?

I'm going to call BS on the CPU thermal numbers though. Unless Intel has managed to get it down from 100.

That's what the Iranians have been saying.

And you do know that your signature is a call for the complete genocide of the Jews, right? The slogan is a direct call to slaughter all the Jews between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. And you're joining in.

"Apple has never offered a product that justified a large chassis. It used to be lots of slots, hard drives and other storage that justified it. Macs have never been about that"

I see you don't remember the 68k Macs OR the PPC Macs. Apple offered machines with lots of slots ever since the Macintosh II line. HTH.

Can't be that famous, this is the first I've heard about that particular gem of gross malfeasance from the bureaucracy.

Too much latency for RAM.

Disagreement is not a valid reason to downvote someone. Just take a look at the list of voting options - it isn't there. Instead, try using the comment box to argue. That's the civilized way to disagree.

I find that I rather enjoy our disagreements, but I like to argue. It's a character flaw, true, but without it I'd be perfect. And just imagine how insufferable that would be.

You mean running them on an external GPU? That doesn't take much bandwidth unless you're constantly loading new models.

No, I actually can't. I'm not quite long enough.

Any particular reason you brought it up?

So, foreign names sound shady to you? There's a word for that, but it seems to have slipped my mind...

I'm guessing it's mostly just him complaining about getting shot down for dates and forcing his way into locker rooms to drink beer.

Last time Trump was President famously they kept him from having access to classified information as much as possible because he kept leaking it and so did everyone around him. Trump didn't like that so this time all the adults in the room are gone and it's all toddlers. It must really suck to be an American intelligence officer or asset right now. I mean we had people restraining the stupidity back in 2016 and they are all gone now and the last time the number of dead intelligence officers and assets shot through the roof. These days I suspect they have a life expectancy comparable to a drain fly.