Mac mini
Still got my fingers crossed for a desktop machine that isn’t a Mac Pro and isn’t a Mac Mini.<p>Would love iMac Pro firepower without being tied to a set display.<p>I’ve been alive 30 years. A good portion of that was growing up as a PC user, overclocker, teenage hacker, etc. My professional career however has been on Unix and MacOS, and as much as I try to get back to <i>desktop</i> Linux and open source OS’s I just find them to be so brittle and hacked together.<p>I tried to daily drive Linux and just couldn't do it, and I am not a newb to Linux either. I got my feet wet on SuSE (Kernel 2.4!), and then saw the light of Debian and Ubuntu and have used that primarily since. Remember when you could order free install CD's for Ubuntu? There were copies of Warty Warthog all over my high school. I have installed arch by hand, btw. I’ve used Fedora and RHEL and CentOS and Slackware! Gnome and KDE and XFCE. Remember Compiz? It isn’t the desktop environments. It isn’t the distributions. It’s just the unavoidable consequence of an entire ecosystem of desktop Linux being designed by committee.<p>So I’ve accepted I’ll be on macOS for a long time to come (not unlike DHH - <a href="https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-years/" rel="nofollow">https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-year...</a>) and have started to seriously consider building a hackintosh. But when your time is billed hourly and you have a half dozen clients, time is money and the novelty of a Ryzen-powered hate tank hackintosh for my professional work is starting to look less realistic.<p>So how about a Diet® Pro for those of us who want something that isn’t a laptop in a big AppleTV chassis and isn’t a desktop in a monitor chassis.