RE the idea of having a toolchest of machines for specific tasks, between my mac and monitor is an eGPU. It's a separate box and I bought it to run blender bett

RE the idea of having a toolchest of machines for specific tasks, between my mac and monitor is an eGPU. It's a separate box and I bought it to run blender better. Maybe it's not that workstations are dead, but that their shape has changed: At the core of the modern version is a general purpose computer, and then hardware modules (internal cards, or external peripherals via thunderbolt) are added to make task-specific workstation computing happen. Most people don't need their computers to be workstations, but that's always been the case I suppose.