They need to add heater packs underneath and thermocouple readings. While white is good at rejecting external thermal radiation, it is also poor at emitting thermal radiation. A white surface can be hard to keep cool if the heat comes from within. In particular, white will look like it has a much better comparitive advantage when imaged in IR than is likely to be the case in real usage conditions.
Yellow, red, and gray may be more comfortable in practice.
Hexagons are bestagons, but are much harder to fabricate.
When lead times grow, companies start ordering further and further out to make sure they won’t get stuck waiting in line.
The whole “sold out until end of 2027” thing should not be taken nearly so literally. Yes, memory is in high demand, but that doesn’t mean there’s literally a year and a half worth of gap between production capacity and demand. If someone magiced tons of memory into existance, most of those orders would not be ready to take delivery. We saw the same thing with the automotive chip shortages. There were tons of articles about crazy lead times, then once supply started catching up again it was suddenly a non issue.
I was going to make a static pressure pun related to luggage, but I just don’t have the head for that.