They are likely scared of people who would run MacOS virtual desktop farms, without also buying an appropriate number of Apple machines.

That’s what I would be worried about if my primary source of income was hardware sales.

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mysteria an hour ago | parent | next [-]

IMO they should sell appropriately priced licenses that allow the use of more VMs. Make the licenses expensive enough so that it doesn't eat into hardware sales, or explicitly prohibit VDI/virtual seats in the license agreement.

Currently services like Github Actions painfully and inefficiently rack thousands of Mac Minis and run 2 VMs on each to stay within the limits. They probably wouldn't mind paying a fee to run more VMs on Mac Studios instead.

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ryandrake 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the world of virtualization and the idea of macOS running on anything besides "metal built by Apple." They've been pretty clear for decades that they only care about customers who buy Apple aluminum and silicon.

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		Well, but their customers are those that buy Apple hardware.
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moondev 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Imagine buying a mac studio with 500+ GB of memory and being limited to 2 vms.

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naikrovek 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah that is what I was going to do until I discovered the two VM limit. I was building a MacOS GitHub Actions farm, or rather, looking into it. I had written most of the code but my inertia screeched to a halt when I discovered the two VM limit for MacOS VMs.

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FireBeyond an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They discontinued the 512GB Studio, and the Pro is gone, so no fear there now.

	▲	naikrovek 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They still EXIST though. And I saw one the other day on the Refurbished store. They’re definitely still around. Even a 256GB model would run a load of 16GB VMs