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MinisForum UM870 Slim

Posted on 2025-06-26 by pappp

I picked up a little MinisForum UM870 Slim in a 32GB/1TB configuration for about $463 on sale (from nominal $580 sticker price) a few weeks ago, just to have a decent piece of fixed hardware on my desk at home. I’d recommend these things to a large swath of the desktop market, with a few model-specific caveats. Details below.

A Minisforum UM870Slim held in-hand to show size.
Easily in the 1L ultra small form factor class, 130×126.5×50.4mm is about 0.8L
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Snow – Classic Macintosh emulator

Posted on 2025-06-26 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Neat! Always good to see motion around platform emulation. BasiliskII is HLE (and has the tradeoff of inaccuracies and super cool tricks as a result), MAME and qemu-system-m68k are both a little ugly to use - though the latter has become quite capable in recent years, it's good enough to mostly run A/UX 3.x, and the only other success at that was Shoebill, which is both long abandoned and was rather special-purpose. This is more similar to MiniVMac, but already has Mac II/'020 support (but no higher, so it can't get in the A/UX game yet) and is a little more conventionally structured.
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