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plug a USB stick in, it's like finicky, your data speeds are going up and down while you're transferring files. But these SSDs man, they stay consistent. Like you could, you know, set your watch volume. The speed is just great when you're backing up files. And I've got two of these 500 gig ones and two 250 gig ones. So all told, I've got terabyte and a half of SSD, which I've never used before like that, you know. I've never used them as just storage like that. They were inside computers, they were boot drives, you know, stuff like that. But then inside all these computers, I also had terabytes of 7200 RPM data drives, which I can also use on the Mac now. So I tell you, you're not limited by the storage of your Mac if you have the right adapter to hook up drives and stuff. The 250 gig mini has never been an issue with storage. It really hasn't. You plug things into it, you know. So the need to upgrade, unless you really need, you know, internal storage like a 500 gig or terabyte or something like that, you know, it's really not necessary. Apple charges an arm and a leg for upgrades on these things. But you really don't need it. And the storage in the Mac mini is upgradable. It's a proprietary chip that they've got the NAND flashes on, but companies have already started to manufacture NAND flash on those proprietary adapters. You can buy them and upgrade your storage inside your Mac. It's only like you just take it apart, there's a few screws on the bottom, and take out the fan, and the SSD just sits right there. It's not soldered in. And you can actually upgrade the RAM or unified memory, as they call it now, as like part of the main chip. The GPU is part of the main chip. But I mean, these things are powerhouses. I mean, you look at a 20 core APU, and there's 10 GPU cores and 10 CPU cores in this thing. I mean, that's a lot of processing power right there. That's like, you'd need like a high-end Ryzen chip, like a very high-end Ryzen chip from AMD to even match that. And I've seen the Mac mini M4 put up against high-end Ryzen chips then, and it's like, they don't hold a candle to the processing power in this M4. They really don't. And I don't miss Windows at all anymore. I've found applications for programs I used to use before, like my BitTorrent client, for instance. I've got one that fits so tightly integrated into Mac OS. It looks like it was made by Apple, and it looks like it's part of the operating system. I mean, even this thing, it's got the same exact UI as what Finder does. But...