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Rack Mac Pros are targeted at racks that are mostly filled with audio/video equipment. Apple really doesn't seem to have any interest in selling server products

• zozbot234 5y ago
  So? It's still rack-mountable workstation-class hardware that will probably be running on Apple Silicon at some point. And it will probably be possible to boot Linux on it, similar to existing M1 Macs. That's pretty indistinguishable from many servers.
  • simtel20 5y ago
    You seem to be thinking that a server and a workstation are the same, ignoring that server skus need oob management, apis, hardware support and so many other things as table stakes
    • zozbot234 5y ago
      Did Xserve have any of that stuff?
      • kbenson 5y ago
        Not all of it, and not necessarily well, which was one reason they weren't super popular except for the case you really needed Apple software. It seemed more aimed at the "I want to colocate a box somewhere and I run Apple in the office and I might also want to in the datacenter for some reason or another" rather than "this is a solid platform that offers all the bells and whistles I would expect because I'm deploying tens or hundreds or these".