[Throwawayhahzoh]

Not surprising back when chip shortages were severe, and while checking out all their workstations I did note one of their oldest SKUs having a CPU option disappear in the process. Some of that might count as clearance but there's reasons to not be on the bleeding edge.

As I'm finding with a Raptor Lake CPU and conservative stock Debian 12 bookworm and it's 6.1 kernel, largest format video playing has some tearing and so on due to driver support based on the error messages I'm seeing, 720p is much better. At the bottom of the stack root ZFS is rock solid: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Deb...

Today availability should be different and skimming their rackmount SKUs the vast majority claim "Ships Within 3-5 Business Days" which was my experience with a tower workstation.

I went to the above few minutes of effort because the company has done very well for me and mine in the last couple of decades, and people who are buying small quantities which certainly includes small or startup businesses as well as "hobbyists" shouldn't think the old shortages still hold in a period where I hear general demand is down outside of AI platforms. And prices are certainly pretty good.