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0 pointsskuhn10y ago0 comments

It is appealing in a way, but I also think it would put the business at legal risk in a way that is totally unconscionable. We cannot run a Hackintosh in production for a single moment, the long term ramifications could be immense.

The chassis we designed represents my attempt to re-house the Mac Pros in something more suitable for the datacenter.

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joshmn10y ago

Yeah, the legal risk just isn't worth it.

It'd be interesting to see someone rip apart a Mac Pro and build an entire form-factor around its setup.

Don't get me wrong, what you guys have done is extremely beautiful in all ways, but I can't help to think that if someone wanted to do this with say a Mini... say you take a 1u rack, drill some new holes into it... hmm.

skuhnOP10y ago

The Minis are incredibly simple machines inside, and their airflow is not great. You could pop their logic boards out and run them without the chassis. With some thought it wouldn't be too tough to significantly improve their airflow for this environment.

I do have an existing rack design that holds 64 of them (and other people have gone denser, with operational compromises I prefer not to make), so there's no great impetus on my side to rip them out of their enclosures.

My Mac Mini rack design is shown in a little more detail in our previous article: http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-int...

joshmn10y ago

Thanks for the detailed response. Really cool stuff you guys have going on.

What other companies utilize Apple hardware in this way at this kind of scale? While not "out of this world" in comparison to some of the big players who have tackled scaling, it's definitely significant considering Apple hardware.

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0 pointsskuhn10y ago0 comments

The chassis we designed represents my attempt to re-house the Mac Pros in something more suitable for the datacenter.

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joshmn10y ago

Yeah, the legal risk just isn't worth it.

It'd be interesting to see someone rip apart a Mac Pro and build an entire form-factor around its setup.

skuhnOP10y ago

My Mac Mini rack design is shown in a little more detail in our previous article: http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-int...

joshmn10y ago

Thanks for the detailed response. Really cool stuff you guys have going on.

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