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   Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:16:58 JST Helge Heß

   OK, so I just came up w/ the design for the NeXT Mac Pro, a Cube (ok, the original Cube idea is owned by someone else)!
   As you may know, the original NeXT Cube had space for four whole motherboards. In practice I'm only aware that either one or two got used (two w/ a NeXTdimension gfx card, the setup I have).
   But I think the original idea was that it would house 4 individual computers/board, connected by the Mach kernel (Mach ports!) to form a singular compute unit. #WWDC

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:16:57 JST Helge Heß

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     Now transport that to the modern times. #AppleSilicon mainboards are fully integrated machines and can't really be modular in the traditional way.
     But what if you'd have a machine that essentially houses 4 MacBook Pro's w/ Mx Extreme's! The M5 is released? Don't throw away your computer, just upgrade one, or all of your blades w/ the new one. Kinda like you replace the drives in your Synology if capacity suffers.

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:16:57 JST Helge Heß

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     I kinda hate how people are actually using MacBookPro's. If you are a photographer or scientist who is actually mobile, that's perfect, thumbs up.
     But there are so many devs who just have them sitting clamshell, as a desktop 98.9% of them time. This is just an incredible waste of resources, in particular the awesome display which goes when the compute has to go. Not good.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:16:57 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     @helge Yeah, I just use a Mac mini for this. My MBP is rarely connected to a monitor.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:18:56 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • mingistech :mastodon:

     @helge @mingistech I think there's potential gatekeeping around "do you really need a pro?" -- but this isn't about that.

     The same thing is true for *any* laptop which just sits, closed lid attached to a monitor most of the time.

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:18:57 JST Helge Heß

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     @mingistech Why is that fine and why is there any gatekeeping about it?

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     mingistech :mastodon: (mingistech@toot.community)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 07:18:59 JST mingistech :mastodon:

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     @helge naw, it’s fine. Let’s not start with this gatekeeper nonsense.