Apple reports third quarter results

Re:Apple reports third quarter results by TX81Z on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:59PM (#36994115)

I’ve got a stack of 24 Mac minis, $600 a pop. With barely any power draw, and killer compute, it’s a steal.

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Re:Apple reports third quarter results by dkasper on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:28PM (#36995156)

curious what type of workload this would be good for?

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Re:Apple reports third quarter results by rbanffy on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:42AM (#36999170)

Don’t know about them, but I build and manage clusters so I can build and manage clusters.

I have one of 4 RPi Zero Ws that right now runs a Docker Swarm with Hercules running VM370. And Squid proxy because I don’t want it polluting the Wi-Fi network for no good reasons.

The cluster is named Gibson.

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Re:Apple reports third quarter results by TX81Z on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:34PM (#37008752)

Nodes in a distributed system, polling server for tasks.

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Re:Apple reports third quarter results by dkasper on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:59PM (#37024021)

but why mac for this? Is it really more cost effective than cheap linux boxes?

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Re:Apple reports third quarter results by TX81Z on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:26PM (#37044162)

Performance per watt on an M2 is better than anything else you can buy. Barely generates heat. Considering for $600 each and I don’t need to spec anything out and can just drive to the Apple Store any time I need a few more and it’s really useful for a home business cluster.

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