Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

Not worth the hassle and the faffing. Just pay Apple their tax. Your time is far more valuable. And if it’s not then you have bigger fish to fry.

> Your time is far more valuable.

Damn I wis--

> And if it’s not then you have bigger fish to fry.

You make it sound like anyone in tech that isn't making giant piles of money screwed up their career.

And if I take that literally, wouldn't I have to be making at least a thousand dollars an hour?

This should even hold for non-US salaries? This is a machine that enables you to work for about four years. What’s that 200k € in /median/ EU wages. Penny pinching. The thing is that consumer and prosumers vary and everybody wants to drive a Porsche to work And to leisure.

Not blaming anyone for wanting a machine like this. Trying to point out that tech has become so accessible that we all aspire to have a supercomputer as our daily driver.

When I was young a PC (xt and on) would set my dad back about a monthly wage. What I see is a huge compression of the price range. But the upper part of the range still exists (training LLM is not much different from the central computer at universities in the 70s/80s).

I think an EU salary of 200k/year is at least uncommon if not outright rare and definitely not median. At least in the tech space, maybe in finance it's more common.

GP suggested 200k over 4 years, which is pretty reasonable.