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And the old one looked like a cheese grater (to many complaining at the time).
I hope it's quite or fanless. Looks like it's a giant heatsink design.
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Please show me a device that's comparable to the new Mac Pro... So much performance in this small of a form factor is pretty innovative
You could build something much more powerful for cheaper, and still be able to upgrade/change out individual internal components. I've bumped the RAM capacity/speed twice since I built this machine three years ago. Upgraded the video card once, and CPU once. When I decide to do a more thorough re-vamp, I can re-use the power supply, the case, the video card, and a bunch of other components. What you're really paying…
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I guess I haven't ran into this. I've been able to re-use some of my components through different incarnations of this desktop, and it's saved me a ton of money. For example, I don't need to upgrade my entire desktop to upgrade my video card. I can toss something nasty in there, and even if my motherboard doesn't support the latest and greatest PCIe spec, my next one will. Ditto for SATA. I've got a ton of mileage ou…
It is very nice; the model of 'everything is soldered down' is really annoying wherever you find it (my BMW, my Mac, &c.) But I think that the difference in cost between standard expandable hardware and custom stuff is shrinking really rapidly, meaning that designers can now do more things with e.g. thermals or layout that are not feasible using PC style standard hardware. The age of swapping out parts is coming to a…
Wat? TigerDirect, NewEgg, Amazon, and many others have something to say about that. This stuff is cheaper than it EVER has been. Want a bunch of RAM? Get it for under $100. Want a decent 500 GB hard drive? Under $100. Decent processor? Under $100. Decent motherboard? Under $100.
Or are you talking about swapping parts out of pre-assembled computers?
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I get that, my point is that you could just say "Assembled and designed in the US" and be done with it. Does mentioning California really give them so much more culture cachet?
Why alter the current pattern? I imagine they like it.
But ... will it run linux?