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AI generated advice?

If all one needs is basic functionality and are buying based on price, consider an iPad over a corner-cut Mac.

That’s why it’s called the cloud: POOF!

And even then, unless you had an iMac Pro or tower Mac Pro, the abysmal cooling held them back. iMac i9 here, and say MS Flight Simulator would immediately put it to full fans and thermal throttling. But at least it's thin and stylish. Right... right?

Those of us of vintage may remember the original Easy Bake oven, where the heating portion was a 100 watt incandescent light bulb. Well if a mere 100 watts could prepare small portions, what could a current processor and graphics card do? When we're repurposing automotive radiators to cool...

Put an i9 or two in there and you could make toast!

So you can afford a $11,600 CPU. But need to handyman the cooling with used car parts??

One of the first applications needs to be Apple's Mac Studio. The industrial design geniuses located the air intakes in about the worst possible place for pulling in dirt. Filter-stands or even placing the Studios on round automotive air filters are current workarounds.

Testing and oversight never stopped certain online outlets. The ones we've seen here selling USB drives that don't store anything or boxes of trash as GPU cards. Eyesight is worth a bit more than $500, so needless to say I'll stay well away from these.

Critical issues esp. at the proposed scale.

"Siri, help us design our new chips!" "Here are the salsa recipes I found on the Internet..." Hopefully it's not that bad, but Siri has a reputation and "looking into using" AI doesn't cut it. Come back with "Available today is our newest chip that's multiples the speed of any competitor."

Wait, Brain-inspired?? "What are we going to do tonight, Brain?" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky… try and take over the world!"

We all know the next step is having their AI allowed (by default) to automatically change stuff to "Keep the system at peak optimization" etc. What could possibly go wrong?

The smell of 200,000 cooked power connectors in the morning... Seriously, won't all the GPUs be obsolete before the project even goes online? Won't it need continual re-investment with that $50-$60 billion being just (!) a down payment?

Shattered grinding wheels are a reality and nothing to mess around with. IMO repurposing high-speed platters into something they were never remotely designed for is venturing into Darwin Award territory.