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XServe would probably be pretty popular with the recent shift to ARM based servers for their lower power consumption. The problem would be their insistance for

by esskay 4y ago

XServe would probably be pretty popular with the recent shift to ARM based servers for their lower power consumption. The problem would be their insistance for them to run full blown macOS instead of a dedicated Linux based server OS.

solarkraft 4y ago
I think there's a chance they'd give you a thin iOS-based server OS (think watchOS or tvOS) with Hypervisor.Framework and let you choose what you run on it.
- esskay 4y ago
  If they did that it could work. It would need to allow full control of setting up whatever OS you want, be it Windows, *nix based, etc.
- kergonath 4y ago
  That could actually be very exciting.
grecy 4y ago
> XServe would probably be pretty popular with the recent shift to ARM based servers I've been thinking for a while they'll bring XServe back (or the Mac Pro will be rackable) because they'll save a TON of money. 1. Lower power usage in their own data centres - that's gotta be huge. 2. Buying processors from themselves instead of from Intel. Hopefully it will help get whatever chip they're going to use in the Mac Pro to some kind of production number that means economies of scale come into play.