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Most LM Studio vs Ollama comparisons argue about the interface: a desktop app with sliders against a command line with an API. In October 2026 the engine argument is mostly over. On Windows and Linux both apps run llama.cpp, and on Apple Silicon both run Apple’s MLX. What … read more

The K in Quadro K2200 does not stand for Kepler. NVIDIA’s own compute-capability table lists the K620, K1200 and K2200 as compute capability 5.0, which is Maxwell, and NVIDIA’s July 30, 2026 workstation driver still lists all three as supported. The Quadro K420 … read more

Lenovo does something HPE does not: it publishes the date it stops servicing each server. Its End of Service lookup (last modified July 24, 2026) returns a date per machine type, per model and per region, and for a first-generation ThinkSystem SR630 in North America the an … read more

Cisco has not announced the end of sale of any Catalyst 9300 switch. Its support page for the series still reads “Available Order”, with a release date of June 20, 2017, and the original C9300-48P-E is still listed in the release notes for IOS XE 26.2.1 of September … read more

Most OPNsense vs pfSense comparisons argue about the web interface. The two decisions that cost money are elsewhere: what the license allows on hardware you bought yourself, and which network chip sits behind each port. Both firewalls run on FreeBSD, so a card FreeBSD drives ba … read more

Ask how to build a NAS on a used server and you get two answers, TrueNAS and Unraid, argued as if the choice were taste. It mostly isn’t. The two store data differently, cost differently and fail differently, and in October 2026 both have moved under the tutorials: TrueNAS SCA … read more

Every Dell OptiPlex we can sell you today is a Windows 10 machine. As of October 12, 2026, our OptiPlex shelf is six listings, all OptiPlex 5040 and 5050 small form factor desktops: five complete machines with 6th- or 7th-generation Core i5 processors and a build … read more