karmakaze
2 hours ago
Too bad there's no Ultra or Max offerings. They could be useful for easy/light AI usage.
Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances
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by croemer11 Comments
jg2007
13 hours ago
these are actual macbooks?
WaltPurvis
13 hours ago
Mac Minis.
pjmlp
13 hours ago
The only thing left after Apple decided Mac servers was no longer a business they cared about.
I would assume if it didn't take the enterprise world by storm, it would be enough sales for Mac only shops.
ksec
12 hours ago
Mac mini is probably the highest value for money Mac have ever existed in history of Apple. It really should have taken enterprise world by storm.
Except macOS and Apple's team doesn't seems to care about Mac anymore. They could have worked hard and attack the 1.5B Windows PC market and the few hundred millions of Chromebook market.
Instead it was all iPhone and Services.
scottydelta
7 hours ago
You are absolutely correct and in the end it’s all about their profits. How often do people change their computers but on the other hand, how many times you can “influence” people into upgrading their phones? Well many..
viraptor
6 hours ago
> How often do people change their computers
In enterprise environments? Quite often on a 3-4 year schedule. Same with servers. (Yes yes, not all companies)
scottydelta
5 hours ago
But with iphones and partnership with telecos you can sell people all new iphone almost every year.
pjmlp
4 hours ago
Maybe on US, most Europeans rather use pre-pay or post-pay with mobile devices not being contract bound.
Usually most people get their iPhones via contract bundles, and they don't get new phones until needed, because that resets the two-year contract agreement where it is not possible to terminate the contract without paying back the full costs to the provider.
jsheard
8 hours ago
> Mac mini is probably the highest value for money Mac have ever existed in history of Apple.
The base model is great value but the upgrade pricing still throws that out of the window unfortunately. Just doubling the base RAM and SSD capacity doubles the cost of the entire machine, it's as if they're giving the SOTA processor away for free and making all their money on the storage.
pjmlp
9 hours ago
Yes, another example is the Mac Pro, they also gave up on the workstation market.
The day XCode is made fully available on iPadOS, you can imagine where it ends.