Oof yeah. That’s rough.

Maybe as a single unit and not a conversion it’ll be cheaper but right now all in for a Core One+ and 4 head INDX upgrade you’re talking $2k+. A Snapmaker U1 is half that and had a bigger print volume.

I was hoping a Core One with INDX would be reasonable but I have a feeling a U1 is more likely in my future.

Perhaps the best looking Mac ever made (IMO) but doesn’t make much sense with how apple does things these days. Just wish I could get a PC case that looks like that.

There’s probably still at least one nutjob trying to solder an M4 onto an ATX board so they can stretch the meaning of hackintosh… and I for one salute them.

The problem is switching for enterprises because of how much momentum there is. Especially in embedded.

I worked on a 30 year old C code base that’s still being developed now for future products. Some components are literally 20+ years old mostly untouched. Sure they could switch to Rust or something but they’re fucked since nearly none of the staff have relevant experience in anything but the in house C build system and changing over multiple thousands of C files to another language will literally take years even if you got people trained up.

Plus, in embedded pretty much no big HW supplier provides BSPs or drivers in anything but C. If NXP etc. aren’t giving you anything but C, management doesn’t want to start combining languages.

I advocated for Rust when we started a ground-up new project, but got shot down every which way. Only those younger than like 35 were into the idea. Old managers are scared of anything new and their whole life has been C. I don’t know how you convince those kinds of people and maybe we’ll get some movement in another 10 years but enterprises are a slow cautious mess.