Amazing article. It just goes to show how many problems they are solving just to work around bugs and limitations within Apple itself. I’d wager a guess that if Apple made a new Xserve with the same performance as a Mac mini but twice the price people would still buy them, because figuring out data center operations is expensive.

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adgjlsfhk1 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I feel like the ideal would be a 2U, 8 mac mini with dual 10Gb ethernet, shared dual power supplies, actual datacenter heatsink layout would be such a great CI platform.

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brianwawok an hour ago | parent [-]

How many would they sell per year, and how would the total revenue compare to iPhone revenue?

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542458 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

> how would the total revenue compare to iPhone revenue

That's not a useful watermark, most of Apple's own offerings are nowhere near the iPhone revenue level.

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brianwawok 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

Well it means why Apple doesn't care about the market lol.

	▲	adgjlsfhk1 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If they can sell them for higher margin than a mac mini/macbook it seems sensible enough.

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ttul an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have no idea if this is true, but I would not be surprised if Apple has its own unreleased server variant based on the Mac Mini or Mac Studio platform that is deployed in data centers for specific clients.

	▲	chippiewill 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They do. They have their own custom 2U rack machines which they use for AI and private cloud stuff.

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flanz_10 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

they could charge 8x if they packed 4 in a rack.

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Zotta an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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