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If it can run linux, it can conquer data center

• stjohnswarts 5y ago
  In it's current form I don't think so. It's not optimized for DC/enterprise. It certainly has potential though.
  • herpderperator 5y ago
    https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-macos/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-ec...
    • monocasa 5y ago
      That's more of a 'if you have everything else in the data center, then you can have this too for consistency's sake' than something to move traditional data center workloads to.
      • r00fus 5y ago
        The better example of ARM entrance to the datacenter is AWS Graviton. Apple could learn from Graviton to make its ARM cores significantly more datacenter friendly. That said, I don't see Apple doing this unless they see it as a significant opportunity.
        • monocasa 5y ago
          Apple hasn't seen fit to do that for their own data center parts yet (hence the job postings for qemu-kvm, and the xcode cloud running on x86_64 in a VM). I don't think data center parts are on their radar at all.
        • wtallis 5y ago
          For M1 Macs, isn't it everything but the ARM cores that is not datacenter-friendly - the memory capacity, the IO options, the system form factors?