NZ still has to accept international trade and our own residents returning home, and we have had breakouts because of this. Our systems are not infallible. We're mainly lucky because we are isolated by a large body of water, though this is also our downfall. We cannot keep going without imports and reliable shipping, which has taken a pounding since lockdowns started.

I stopped paying for DropBox ($150 a year, 1TB with versions) when I continually got spammed with internal advertisements within their native macOS app, telling me I needed to upgrade to a more expensive plan (I had 600GB stored, there was no reason why I should change). This seriously offended me. Then they introduced a terrible Electron style app for managing my files, which launched at login when I didn't want it to. At that point DropBox lost me. It was a huge hassle moving all these files to another Cloud Provider (ended up with OneDrive), but they drove me to it. It was a nice and simple file cloud sync app with great Finder integration. It then turned into a bloated application with a terrible user experience. Why would anyone pay for that?

GM is fantastic - far more solid than Lion ever was.

Agreed, it's a POS browser on a tablet. It looks tacky, doesn't work well at all. Why change to tabs on the side, but cannot slide to remove and half the time you close the tab window it removes a tab. FFF-FF-UUUU!!!

Nice backup strategy... ;) Let us know how that works out.

unRAID (cheap, expandable, protected data) coupled with inexpensive offsite disk backup (eg your parents house, providing you don't live there already!).

Slow as molasses though. Way slower than any other solution out there..

What kind of performance are you after? If you're not after anything over 40MB/S, I'd go for unRAID. I use this at home and it's brilliant. I've replaced many drives over the years, and I've had two hard drives fail with no massive consequences (data isn't striped). Plus, many many plugins are now available. SimpleFeatures (replacement gui), Plex Media Server, SQL, Email notifications with APCUPSD support etc etc.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0119/latest/DLM2764327.html

Have fun complaining about everyone that gets into power. They're all as bad as each other. Changes happens when you, the collective, do something about it.

Tough crowd... I didn't explicitly compare anything with something half the price, and most brand create comparably priced products in some part of their range...

Presuming because they market it well, and there are many people with lots of expendable income to purchase something 'different'?

Not necessarily - until you've pulled one apart you don't realise how tight everything fits together.

Logic board design is far neater. Less individual components hanging off the main board, so instead they are integral. This leaves more room for battery/other components. You can compare desktops, as they are well overpriced. No difference between a nice Gigabyte/Asus board and a motherboard in a Mac Pro.

Too true.