Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

Re:Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering by pmarreck on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:34AM (#28919281)

I have a macOS VM under VMWare running on Windows. It wasn't that difficult, found some guides online by googling obvious search words. The only thing I haven't gotten to work yet is the App Store, but I saw a guide for that, just haven't done it yet. You won't get graphics acceleration btw, but CPU performance is fine.

I believe the trickiest bit was running a macOS serial generation app and copying that value into the VM settings.

(I've purchased plenty of Macs over the years so pls Apple, this is just for dev purposes!)

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Re:Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering by rdsnsca on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:47AM (#28919443)

Enjoy it while it last, in 3 or 4 years Apple will drop Intel macOS support.

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Re:Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering by pmarreck on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:03PM (#28920479)

By then, Windows 11+ will have moved onto ARM and whatever cross binary solution Microsoft is working on should be complete. Also, with emulation/virtualization, it's still perfectly feasible

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Re:Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering by hulitu on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:30AM (#28956435)

I don't want to destroy your hope but take a look at ARM support in linux. (TL;DR the ARM space is very fragmented so taking a running system from one machine with ARM to another is not possible).

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Re:Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering by pmarreck on Friday October 22, 2021 @11:41AM (#28958587)

Fortunately, Linux lets you install things by compiling them locally instead of just auto-downloading a binary.

Are you saying that "aarch64" binaries don't run on all ARM chips?

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Re:Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering by disiplus on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:42PM (#28920191)

3 or 4 years. sure not, they still sell intel macs on the website.

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