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oh oh are the trash cans retro computers now? this advanced my arthritis and shortened my short-term memory
I agree! And macOS Ventura officially cut off support for the trash can so I guess it really is “retro” now. You can get them for pretty cheap now though and I was thinking it’d still be a decent small Linux or Windows box
Nice!! I don’t actually need more computers, but the shiny tube does beckon to me
Oh wow, looking up the specs on these things and yeah they def still hold up today, that’s kinda nuts from 2013
I love this computer--at least from afar, I've never owned one. I fell so hard for the idea that the purest expression of a computer enclosure is a cooling tower. And the gut-wrenching tragedy that a pure cooling tower didn't have enough cooling capacity for the next generation! Before the Studio was introduced I hoped it would reuse this enclosure. Even after everything.
Alas, the era of “thermal cores” might be behind us, or at least behind Apple, since the whole trick of the M chips is to put all of the hot energy-burning parts on one giant die, instead of having two or three hot parts you can spread around the sides of a giant central heatsink
Hey, we still have a handful of trash cans in production! They’re still decent for running ESXi, but their thermals and cabling are terrible to deal with in server racks.
Ironic that the form factor Phil admitted “designed [us] into a bit of a thermal corner” actually had no corners at all… really makes u think…….