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W8 what >>> 699/(24*0.65) 44.80769230769231 days Nitro card obviously costs a bit, but for ROI on mac itself is closer to 6 weeks than 6 months ;)
by mciancia 5y ago
W8 what
>>> 699/(24*0.65)
44.80769230769231 days
Nitro card obviously costs a bit, but for ROI on mac itself is closer to 6 weeks than 6 months ;)
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- riazrizvi 5y ago> 699/(24*0.65) * proportion of hours the product is unused
- dougmwne 5y agoYup, sorry I was assuming 40 hours of utilization a week, forgot to state that.
- luhn 5y agoUnfortunately Mac instances have a minimum billing duration of 24 hours, so even if you only use it 8am-5pm, you'd be billed for 8am-8am. (Not AWS's fault, it's part of the Apple EULA.)
- konschubert 5y agoWhat is apple's motivation?
- 988747 5y agoProbably they are deliberately trying to make M2 EC2 instances expensive to avoid all their Mac Minis being bought out by AWS, they get higher profit margins selling to retail customers.
- lucky_cloud 5y agoMoney. Disabling a Mac for 24 hours after 10 minutes of use means you have to buy much more hardware than you'd have to if a single Mac could be utilized by many people for short periods of time. Some users would use a single Mac for days/weeks/months but others will want to boot, run a build, and be done. The actual work might take 5 minutes or 3 hours but you pay for a day no matter what. Days where you're doing the same short-lived task many times won't be as expensive per build, but if you just want to do a nightly build, you're paying for months or years and utilizing a fraction of the compute time you're buying.
- garaetjjte 5y agoHypothetically, if AWS instead installed Linux on these, could they disregard Apple's EULA?
- stingraycharles 5y agoTo be fair, since the minimum rent time of these instances in the cloud is 24h, chances are even a cloud-provided instance is unused for quite some time.