STOP UPGRADING YOUR MAC MINI, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG
Apple has been robbing us blind on storage upgrades for a decade, forcing people to throw away perfectly good computers.
But if you have an M1 or M2 Mac Mini, this one insane vertical dock completely breaks the matrix.
Forget ugly dongles and external enclosures dangling off your desk. This heavy-duty aluminum stand by Acasis transforms your base-model Mac Mini into a miniature Mac Pro footprint.
Why this is the ultimate workspace hack:
Hidden 40Gbps Enclosure: Slides out from the side panel to support up to an 8TB NVMe SSD at full native speed.
Front-Facing Pro IO: Packs SD/microSD 4.0, dual 10Gbps USB-A, and a 10Gbps USB-C right where you can reach them.
Dual Display Loop: Adds an integrated HDMI output for seamless dual 4K/60Hz monitor setups.
FOUR DIFFERENT VENDORS ARE NOW SHIPPING GB10 MINI PCs WITH 128GB UNIFIED MEMORY, AND ONE MICROTIK CRS 804 SWITCH CAN CONNECT UP TO EIGHT OF THEM INTO A 1 TERABYTE LOCAL AI CLUSTER
00:00 he points at the MikroTik CRS 804, "you need some kind of switch that'll handle QSFP56 ports like these", the interconnect that makes the whole cluster possible
the GB10 ecosystem is no longer just Nvidia. Dell Pro Max GB10, ASUS Ascent GX10, and MSI Edge Expert all ship the same Grace Blackwell Superchip with 128GB of coherent memory. same silicon, different cases, same 200 gigabit ports on the back
the CRS 804 is what connects them at prosumer prices. four 400 gigabit QSFP56 ports on one 1U chassis, breakout cables that split each port into two 200 gigabit lanes. one switch drives eight GB10 units in parallel
do the math. eight nodes at 128GB each equals 1024GB of pooled unified memory across the cluster. run vLLM, shard a frontier model across all eight, and inference happens locally on hardware that fits in half a rack
the real limiter revealed in the stress test was never throttling. it was interconnect topology, exactly the layer this switch fixes at a fraction of enterprise switch pricing
$400 a month for combined chatgpt pro and claude code max hits $4,800 a year per developer. a small team of five running through this cluster pays back inside eight months and never expires
the article covers the buying ladder for a single desk. this post is proof of the cluster ladder that starts where the desk one ends
save this before the GB10 lineup grows past four vendors and prosumer cluster switches move upmarket
What men do for fun, find a 10,300-pound boulder, call it a "quick project," and spend the day turning the yard into a physics experiment. Starts with "let's just move it," ends with heavy machinery, a little panic, and a whole lot of bragging rights. Just another normal day of proving men will invent a reason to use straps, trucks, and poor judgment. ๐ชจ
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@Simba_crpt Over 95% of the stock is locked into Elon (46%) then other employees and a variety of institutional investors. Youโre talking about 5% of the company that was floated into the market for retail investors, purchased by high net worth individuals and family offices.
@0xbeehive Over 95% of the stock is locked into Elon (46%) then other employees and a variety of institutional investors. Youโre talking about 5% of the company that was floated into the market for retail investors, purchased by high net worth individuals and family offices.