Dear Friends,

I took a quick trip up to Tech Data in Clearwater, FL for some meetings this week and it was good to meet some folks I have only talked with on the phone. The recount is underway here in Florida and I think we will be watching some Kibbles & Bytes reader’s pups while they volunteer to help with that. The lesson I get from the recounts and voter suppression issues in Georgia is if we want to protect our democracy we need to protect and enhance our right to vote that so many of our men and women fought to preserve. There should be no long lines, no taking all day to cast your vote, and it just should be so much easier. I say make election day a holiday, enhance voting by mail, or do whatever we can to encourage everyone to vote!

Did you know that Apple is not alone in using renewable energy to power their facilities? Apple is at 100% and Small Dog lags there, but we do supply 100% of our Vermont operations from the solar farm in our backyard in Waitsfield. We measure our success at Small Dog Electronics with the triple but equal bottom lines of People, Planet and Profit.

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive features the new Mac Mini. The Mac Mini finally got its long-awaited upgrade and this Mac, which resides in many server farms, slot machines and other places where size is important, is now an even more versatile powerhouse. This bundle includes the Mac Mini with a 3.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i3 processor, 8GB of ram and a 128GB SSD drive. We are bundling it with an Apple Apple Magic keyboard, Apple Magic mouse 2 and a V7 28-inch 4k display! We are also including AppleCare + for this Mac Mini! This bundle will give you a great desktop Mac at a very attractive price. It is normally $1550 for this bundle but this week for Kibbles & Bytes readers you can get this for $100 off at $1319.99!