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I went the other way, and invested in a way over-spec'd desktop... aiming for very few components but all very capable... less future-proofing along the lines of "oh I can always add lots of drives", etc... and more "just buy near the biggest and best drive available today so I don't need other ones".
And you are right... system builders are good at balancing all of these concerns, and laptop manufacturers still have all these trade-offs but in a closed box you don't have to worry about them. Then Apple have an advantage here too, all the same restrictions exist but now they control heavily all the peripherals too and can balance things even more in their favour.
With freedom comes great
responsibilityability to build a system that glitches in weird ways and isn't finely balanced.
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I might just get Puget or someone to build my next one. Or just revert to working on a mac and gaming on PC but then, ultimately, I won't be able to alt-tab so easily when my wife walks in and wonders why I haven't completed a project from 3 months ago.
On an entirely unrelated note, now going to look up KVM switches.