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Apple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market. Anyone who wants a bigger CPU than the M1 ultra would probably be better served using a cloud. My c
by colinmhayes 5y ago
Apple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market. Anyone who wants a bigger CPU than the M1 ultra would probably be better served using a cloud. My company gives everyone a $2k macbook, but guess what, all our development still happens on our cloud, because laptops will never be able to compile as quickly as build farms.
- nicoburns 5y agoYeah, looks like they're targeting the creative market. Which makes a lot of sense. The one I was wondering about was ML workloads. Looks like that's not their primary target, but I had also missed that 128GB video RAM is a pretty big deal that you can't get elsewhere.
- thomasahle 5y agoI'm not sure how to compare the 128GB "unified" RAM with the 80GB dedicated video RAM on a A100. I suppose it might even be an advantage to unify RAM, so you don't have to copy back and forth between the CPU and GPU?
- nicoburns 5y agoThat and I think you can genuinely use all 128GB so long as you're not trying to run something else on the CPU at the same time. So a bit bigger than 80GB.
- yardie 5y agoIt doesn't seem like anyone wants to truly be in the server market. With so much going on in the cloud there really is a shrinking audience who need Mac specific server hardware on-prem or colo'd
- alwillis 5y agoApple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market. Doesn't matter if Apple has interest in the server market; the server market has interest in Mac Studios. I can see a rack of these in someone's datacenter. Can you imagine the render farm that could be created?