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I take no position on the enforceability or the wisdom of the case. That said… It seems completely reasonable to me that there will be ARM-based desktops and l

by edw 7y ago

I take no position on the enforceability or the wisdom of the case. That said… It seems completely reasonable to me that there will be ARM-based desktops and laptops from Apple in the next five years and that they plan to offer them in hardware or software configurations that are suited to server work; macOS Server is still a thing. I three-quarters expected, when the new Mac Pro was announced a year or two ago, that it would be the first ARM-based desktop Mac. I was wrong, but I think I was wrong on timing, not on whether it would eventually happen. Apple cares a lot about having control of every key technology that makes up its offerings.

Despegar 7y ago
Yeah this is almost certainly about chips intended for future Macs.
yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
> macOS Server is still a thing It is? With no server hardware except for maybe a rack-mounted Mac Pro ( which doesn't really strike me as server grade hardware)[0] and most of the actual server services gutted[1]? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro#Mac_Pro_Server https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro#Mac_Pro_Server & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini#Mac_mini_Server https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini#Mac_mini_Server [1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/24/major-changes-macos-server/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/24/major-changes-macos-server/
- thetinguy 7y ago
  I have seen many macos server installations on Mac mini.