They don't have to go all the way though and fully compete with Dell EMC/HPE. I'm not sure what the original commenter was thinking but in my mind they could si

They don't have to go all the way though and fully compete with Dell EMC/HPE. I'm not sure what the original commenter was thinking but in my mind they could simply sell a Mac Studio variant with dual PSUs, better networking, a rackmount chassis, etc. Basically have their existing consumer machine placed in a more datacenter friendly factor. I mean places like Github and AWS are painfully racking up Mac Minis for their deployments and this theoretical server model would simplify everything. It also becomes an option for on premises AI inference using MLX, especially if they manage to get ANE support working in conjunction with the GPU for faster prefill. The support and software stack for the server model would be the exact same as the consumer variant and they certainly wouldn't have special Linux offerings, Infiniband, and all that. If there's networking beyond their existing 10G it's going to be built into the board and they aren't going to support random 3rd party cards. The unit also doesn't need to be upgradable either.