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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by samgranieri on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:32AM (#26956371)
I don't think Apple will go back to creating server infrastructure again. In the interim, I know Amazon created an ARM server chip called Graviton, and I'd like to run a kubernetes cluster on that
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by nonameiguess on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:01AM (#26956839)
A lot of other fairly standard cloud native technologies don't yet work on ARM, notably istio, even though most implementations of kubernetes itself will work. This is the major thing preventing me from being able to use a Macbook even for development (at least an M1, but that's all I have).
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by tambourine_man on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:05AM (#26956891)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ez-8qRYUUAIoukD?format=jpg
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by lozaning on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:17PM (#26962550)
I would do truly terrible things for an updated xserve RAID (the most beautiful computing device ever made) that supported SATA or NVME drives.

Right now I've got IDE to SATA adapters in mine, which leaves just enough space to also squeeze 2.5" sata ssd into 3.5" drive caddies.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by kumarvvr on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:32AM (#26956389)
I hope they do, because, ultimately, it will be good for the environment.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by Jonnax on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:39AM (#26956508)
Yes, you can run a kubernetes cluster using it.

It's been available for a year: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-ek...

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by qaq on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:56AM (#26956760)
They should do a cloud they have some very unique tech like foundationDB based SQL RDBMS and M chips and prob a lot more cool thingies.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:38PM (#26959758)
The latest Mac Pro does come in a rack mount option, but I'm not sure what market it's targeting.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by evanmoran on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:56PM (#26959958)
I think it’s mainly for Mac / iOS development CI systems like for CircleCI or Mac Stadium. The hardware just seems too expensive for it to replace more generic arm services that AWS is offering.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by selectodude on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:09PM (#26960109)
On-site music and video production. You can rack it in a portable rack with your other racks of music equipment and it fits in the back of a van.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by lukeh on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:17PM (#26963253)
Well, if your portable rack happens to be way deeper than most audio racks…
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by selectodude on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:08AM (#26966199)
If you're wheeling around five to six figures worth of audio production equipment often enough to want the rackmount Mac Pro, I think the cost of a new rack is almost a rounding error.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by mlindner on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:55PM (#26960683)
Linus (of Linus Tech Tips) talks about the target market some in his videos about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7Zu3LoeG8

In short, it's for media production, not computing. You put it in a media rack.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by jeffy90 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:55PM (#26959950)
Maybe ios ci/cd build infrastructure?
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