So naturally, we rushed to bring you news of this mini NUC rack designed by [Jeremy Weatherford ... we covered a clever design from [Jay Doscher] back in May.

Along those lines, technologist and YouTube maker Jeff Geerling has launched the Project Mini Rack page for folks who have similarly server-sized ambitions, coupled with a lack of square footage.

Ever see a standard server rack stuffed full with 8-dozen MacBook Pros? Well now you have. Now before the torrential downpour of anti-Mac comments come, this actually has a purpose. No seriously.

But none of them were as big as the cancellation of the Xserve, Apple’s rack-mountable 1U server, back in January 2011. Running the risk of reopening old wounds, let’s look back at this unusual ...