[chaostheory]

The issue for that is that it’s not cheap, commodity hardware. It’s a risk to build a server farm with Apple given their historical penchant to arbitrarily cancel entire product lines that were doing ok. Apple is best as a workstation or personal machine.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

That‘s a good point.

Tell me about it.

We used to have a couple of their XServe rack servers, as well as that fat RAID rack.

Iirc, we had to get $pecial disks for that damn thing.

[chaostheory]

imo this is just an improved version of garbage can Mac Pro

They refuse to build what a sizable number of people want, yet we're stuck with Apple because the alternatives are even worse. That's what pg got wrong with one of his predictions. He didn't realize that no one can do better than Apple's worst effort