FileMakerFeller

Searching for "shortbread biscuit recipes" brings up a lot of hits... probably worth trying to bake my own.

AppleInsider said:

IDC Worldwide Mobile and Consumer Device Trackers group vice president Ryan Reith also raises a point for the commercial market, pointing out that Windows 10 end of support will happen in 2025. The end of support will help drive commercial purchases, and it will apparently do so even if the businesses involved continue waiting for more advanced PCs to become available. 

It's not going to be like the introduction of Windows 95, but once MS decided on a minimum requirement for Windows 11 there was going to be a spike in demand at some point. The question is, did the boost in purchases during the "work from home" deluge soak up all of that demand or are there businesses out there in large numbers that are still waiting to upgrade?

I think the "advanced enough to run generative AI" argument is unconvincing - a lot of the AI stuff is going to be run with an online service, especially once private data sets are ensured to stay private (which MS has already promised with Azure).

AppleInsider said:

"As we've worked with our initial college athletes, we've realized how important it is for them to have brand support at that level," said Aminah Charles, Beats' head of sports marketing. "The industry is moving toward truly empowering more fully exploiting college athletes, so we wanted to take a bigger swing in this area."

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Merocle said:

Hey, everybody!

thank you so much for your comments.

The main question as I see it is "why?"

I'll try to answer that:

1. Why is Mac Mini in the server room?

It is the best and actually, the only reasonable (in terms of price and number of cores and RAM) option for developers to build and test software under the Apple Silicon platform. Especially if there are a lot of developers in the company.

2. Why servo drives?

It is the only option to have full control. It's not a question of being able to switch them on or off. The question is to be able to switch to the recovery mode and completely reconfigure them. To do this, you need to hold the power button for about 7 seconds.

I may not have covered this issue in enough detail in this comment. But I will try to write about it in detail on my website when I prepare the article.
Thanks again to everyone!

I love the config you've chosen, but it looks to be 6U high. From my rough calculations you could have a 2x3 flat grid in a 1U space; if you place the minis so their rear faces the sides of the rack you get a channel where you can run cables. Is it just too tricky to get a servo arrangement into that space as well?

Meh. I already bleed six colours.