The joke
is obvious.
The engineering is not. Three logic boards meet around one shared thermal core, cooled by a single, slow-spinning fan.
Trash Can D700
The trashcan Mac. Preserved. Running Linux.
A 2013 Mac Pro from the Tim Cook and Jony Ive era, serviced and rebuilt around Bazzite Linux. Steam and Proton give the D700 a useful second life without sanding away what made it unusual.
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Selected, serviced, documented, and configured with Bazzite Linux.
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
The entire thermal system centers on one large, slow-spinning fan. At idle, the machine nearly disappears.
Bazzite Linux
Linux, shaped into a gaming system.
Bazzite is a gaming-focused Linux operating system built on Fedora Atomic Desktop. This D700 uses the desktop edition: KDE Plasma for ordinary computer work, Steam for the library, and Big Picture mode for a controller-first living-room interface.
Fedora underneath.
Bazzite uses the Linux kernel and Fedora's image-based desktop. Hardware drivers, multimedia codecs, and gaming utilities are integrated into a maintained system rather than assembled after installation.
Steam is part of the system.
Steam, Lutris, Proton, and the supporting media stack arrive ready to use. Native Linux games run directly; Proton translates many Windows games and their DirectX graphics calls for Linux.
Updates arrive as one image.
Bazzite replaces the core operating system as a tested whole and applies the update on restart. If a release misbehaves, the previous deployment remains available without erasing personal files.
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.
Installed operating system: Bazzite Desktop Edition, a Linux distribution. A Steam account and game licenses are required; games are not included.
Preservation standard
- Operating system
- Bazzite Linux · Fedora Atomic Desktop · KDE Plasma
- Gaming
- Steam · Proton · Big Picture mode
- 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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