[moondev]

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

[naikrovek]

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.

[leptons]

You are not Apple's target market, and never will be.

They don't care what you want to do with the hardware you own.

[naikrovek]

No kidding.

[stephenr]

You realise you can run VMs for any other os right? It's a limit on running macOS not a limit on running VMs.

[naikrovek]

Yes we all realize that.

It’s MacOS VMs that we want to run.

[stephenr]

Maybe I should have used the same dismissive tone.

Imagine thinking everyone who buys a Mac and runs VMs wants to run heaps of macOS VMs.

[naikrovek]

why else would you buy a mac to run VMs?

arm64 hardware is cheap, x64 hardware is cheap and both of those can run as many Linux or Windows VMs as you have RAM to run.

[stephenr]

For me? Infrastructure simulation.

Why buy a second extra machine to do testing of multi machine infrastructure configurations when my workstation can run the VMs locally?

For others? I don't know that's why I think it's ridiculous to assume everyone else's use case is the same as your own.

[FireBeyond]

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

[naikrovek]

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