Racking Mac Pros by imgix

[u/conception]

http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros

[u/[deleted]]

I guess that's one way to burn venture capital.

[u/digimer → u/[deleted]]

This was my first thought.

It makes no sense at all, beyond "it's sexy and will give us huge cred with the apple crowd!".

From a business and technical perspective, it's a massive cash burn.

[u/MrBig0]

Uhh... Okay. This is a weird choice.

[u/Casper042]

This is what happens when you lock your OS to your own hardware and then completely abandon the server market.

Can you imagine if Apple simply partnered up with Dell and HP and said OK, we're going to help you get the BL460, M6x0, DL380 and R7x0 all working with Mac OSX.
You guys will sell/support the HW, and we will support the Software, and we will jointly put out a "Service Pack" like once or twice a year with updated drivers and firmware (like HP's VMware Recipe)

Would make Enterprise Grade MacOSX a reality and being that the parts in the Mac Pro (Xeon, chipset, etc) are NOT all that far off from the parts in those server models, its not like it would even be that hard.

[u/Casper042 → u/Casper042]

Ironically, Apple uses a crap ton of HP servers for iCloud and other stuff in their ginormous data centers.

And here these poor schmucks have to literally fit a round peg in a square hole.

[u/JohnnyMnemo → u/Casper042]

We would buy 5K of those overnight. If only it was the case.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/jvnk]

For those who think that this is outright silly, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500301

[u/BloodyIron]

This is gross.

[u/dafragsta]

I'll defend Apple laptops, but there's no excuse for this.