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Nobodies gonna take them seriously till they make something rack mounted and that isn't made of titanium with pentalobe screws...

• moralestapia 11mo ago
  You might ignore this but, for a while, Mac Mini clusters were a thing and they were capex and opex effective. That same setup is kind of making a comeback.
  • londons_explore 11mo ago
    It's in a similar vein to the PS2 linux cluster or someone trying to use vape CPU's as web servers... It might be cost effective, but the supplier is still saying "you get no support, and in fact we might even put roadblocks in your way because you aren't the target customer".
    • moralestapia 11mo ago
      True. I'm sure Apple could make a killing on the server side, unfortunately their income from their other products is so big that even if that's a 10B/year opportunity they'll be like "yawn, yeah, whatever".
      • fennecbutt 11mo ago
        Doubt. A 10B idea is still a promotion. And if capitalism is shrinkflationing hard, which it is atm, then capitalists would not leave something like that on the table.
  • fennecbutt 11mo ago
    They were only a thing to do ci/compilation related to apples os because their walled garden locked using other platforms out. You're building an iPhone or mac app? Well your ci needs to be on a cluster of apple machines.