The joke
is obvious.
The engineering is serious. Introduced under Tim Cook and shaped by Jony Ive's design team, it captures a singular moment of Apple ambition.
Trash Can D700
A trashcan icon. From a legendary Apple era.
The nickname stuck because it looks like one. The machine matters because it came from Tim Cook's Apple and Jony Ive's design team—an audacious workstation preserved as a working collectible.
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Each machine is selected, serviced, documented, and returned to useful life.
The joke
Memory you
can reach.
Four user-accessible ECC memory slots make upgrading and servicing part of the machine's second life.
Acoustics
12 dBA
Apple built the entire thermal system around one large, slow-spinning fan. At idle, the machine nearly disappears.
A second life in Bazzite
Bazzite turns old workstation hardware into a current gaming PC.
Bazzite is a gaming-focused version of Fedora Atomic Desktop. It pairs a modern Linux foundation with Steam, Proton, current drivers, media support, and the everyday tools a living computer needs. On the D700, its desktop edition is the practical choice: a full KDE desktop when it is wanted, and Steam's controller-friendly interface when it is time to play.
Fedora, rebuilt around play.
Bazzite begins with Fedora's image-based desktop and arrives with Steam, Lutris, hardware drivers, multimedia codecs, and gaming utilities already integrated. Regular applications come through Flathub, keeping them separate from the operating system beneath them.
Updates arrive as a whole.
Instead of changing hundreds of system packages one at a time, Bazzite replaces the core system with a tested image and applies it on restart. If an update misbehaves, the previous deployment remains available to roll back without erasing personal files.
Steam and Proton do the translation.
Native Linux games run directly. For many Windows titles, Valve's Proton translates the Windows software and DirectX graphics calls into forms Linux can use. Big Picture mode turns the same Steam library into a controller-first, living-room interface.
If it runs on Steam Deck, it runs here.
Bazzite follows the same Steam-and-Proton path for Linux gaming, carrying the Deck's compatibility story over to the D700. The difference is performance, not the route: resolution, settings, and frame rate still answer to the hardware.
This machine uses Bazzite Desktop Edition. A Steam account and game licenses are required; games are not included.
Preservation standard
- Architecture
- Unified thermal core · one fan · vertical airflow
- Memory
- 64 GB DDR3 ECC · 4 user-accessible slots
- Storage
- Inspected and tested
- Ports
- 6 × Thunderbolt 2 · 4 × USB 3 · HDMI · 2 × Ethernet
- Acoustics
- 12 dBA at idle · 450 W maximum
- Care
- Cleaned inside and out
- Serviced
- Thermal core cleaned and re-pasted
- Tested
- Functional inspection and burn-in
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