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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Two points
Date: 2 Dec 2024 07:09:07 GMT
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:54:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vidd61$18mjb$5@dont-email.me>:

> On 29 Nov 2024 14:52:53 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>> 2) I own two Mac mini's, which are sitting in a drawer.  They were made
>> from notebook equipment, and they are crap.
> 
> Since they switched to ARM, everything named “Mac” from Apple is now a 
> glorified notebook anyway.
> 
>> So we have a Mac Studio now, which is a low-end UNIX workstation.
> 
> Is that ARM-based? Is it as expandable as the old x86-based Mac Pro? If 
> no, then don’t call it a “workstation”.

It's very expandable.  It uses a technology that is basically
"external PCIE" -- only that's not what it's called, it's called
"Thunderbolt".

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