How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2

Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by rsync on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:58PM (#25563722)

This is The Question and it applies to every single one of these stupendously wasteful deployments of time, space, energy and capital.

Every single mid-sized IT shop in the world has an urgent and valid use-case to virtualize OSX in an efficient and portable manner. Most individual power-end-users have similar use-cases.

How many hours / dollars / gigatons-of-carbon / calories are wasted on this comically inefficient, user-hostile and gratuitously complex state of affairs ?

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by oblio on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:04PM (#25564348)

> How many hours / dollars / gigatons-of-carbon / calories are wasted on this comically inefficient, user-hostile and gratuitously complex state of affairs ?

Many, many more that are being "saved" by them not bundling chargers in iPhone. Kind of shows you where they stand.

Follow the $$$.

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by NautilusWave on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:00PM (#25564311)

Apple's whole shtick is hardware/software integration; they'd have to make and sell the hardware for the VMs to run on.

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by icedchai on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:17PM (#25565021)

Don't they already? Mac Pros are a thing. They even are rack mountable.

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