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This made me sad.

I need to turn my DLP projection TV to Circuit City.

And more chances of failure. The benefit is less time to repair a RAID set

I wish more people understood this. Not being able to upgrade is going to generate so much e-waste.

I’ve got 8 year old desktops that I can throw a shitload of memory in (like 512gb or more in some cases) that make neat homelab virtualization servers. One of them is even a Mac Pro. And they are still very useful. A brand new M2 Mac Pro that is 8 years old that I can’t upgrade will not be as useful.

Yeah this is what sold me as well.

Me and a coworker got a couple. Going to try to use these on a couple of Dell machines without idracs at work.

While I’m not thinking in £, I still feel this is kinda ridiculous.

I bet it will be $399

I had an RCA MM36100 back in the early 2000s. It was a 36” beast that weighed almost 200 lbs. I moved it once and decided it just wasn’t worth moving it anymore and left it out the last house when I moved. It was great at the time. I had it set up to watch the Super Bowl in HD for the first time in 2004. For those of you old enough to remember the halftime show that year, it was good year to have HD 😝

Every website I bookmark in case it goes away

Yeah me neither. It’s going in my homelab this afternoon.

Have you ever installed VCSA? The storage requirements for even the tiny install are insane. So 8gb seems tiny comparatively. I think the default for VCSA 8.0 is like 600 GB

I thought they already had a program that sort of did this and allowed you to upgrade hardware every year for a certain cost. Wasn’t it called the Apple Upgrade Program or something like that.

Yeah I found it…

You pay for your iPhone in 24 monthly installments with 0% interest. After making 12 payments (equivalent to one year), you become eligible to upgrade to the newest iPhone model. To upgrade, you simply trade in your current iPhone and start a new 24-month plan with the latest model.

This sure sounds very similar to a hardware subscription model.

And hence one of the major issue with intel CPUs. Why the fuck are there so many?!?