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Mac at any scale

What HN thinks

Hundreds of MacBooks racked in a datacenter, screens dark, batteries humming, Apple shrugging.

Apple neglects servers and enterprise
Most see the whole setup as a workaround for Apple's lack of server hardware, VM limits and remote-management pain, and expect Apple not to care while margins stay high.
Buying beats renting cloud Macs
Several argue cloud Mac CI pricing is absurd and a Mac mini pays for itself within months, while others note renting suits remote firms or occasional needs.
Licensing and battery risks
Commenters debate whether the two-VM and 24-hour EULA rules permit this business, and whether dense racks of laptop batteries are a fire hazard the datacenter should know about.

Consensus: Broad agreement that Apple makes headless, large-scale Mac use needlessly hard, and that the engineering here is impressive given those constraints.

Recommended in the comments

fastlane ↗ (tool): Suggested for taming Apple code signing in CI.
xtool ↗ (tool): Lets you build iOS apps on Linux, though still early and without a Simulator.
OSX-KVM ↗ (tool): Mentioned as a way to run macOS and Xcode on generic servers, despite the EULA.
Tailscale (service): Used to reach a home Mac mini VM lab from anywhere.
UTM (tool): Used to run per-project macOS VMs on a home Mac mini.
Mosyle (service): Used for zero-touch MDM enrollment of hosted Macs.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 9 days ago.

Points: 386
Comments: 214
Best rank: #2
Posted: 2026-11-03 by anner_
Category: DevOps & infra

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