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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by bigyabai on Saturday April 04, 2026 @01:08PM (#47641007)
Apple was the only one stopping themselves from getting back in. It's not like the Mac is a trillion-dollar market segment to begin with.
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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by QuantumNomad_ on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:19PM (#47641731)
Almost everyone including myself had MacBook Pros at my last place of work.

If Apple was in the high-end server market, I see no reason why the company I was working for would not be running macOS on Apple hardware as servers, instead of the fleet of Linux based servers they had.

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Re:Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Ar... by bigyabai on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:28PM (#47643625)
Why wait? You can go run macOS as a server right now. It will take you a few hours to get Docker working, and disable mdworker_shared() and turn off SIP, and then install a package manager/XCode utilities, and finally configure macOS to run as a headless UNIX box, but it's attainable.

Despite how easy Apple makes it, nobody is really using Macs as a server in production. Apple[0] is not using them as a server in production. They would need a radically different strategy to replace Linux, because their efforts on macOS still haven't replaced Windows.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...

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