Why all this stupidity?
96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
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Re: 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a full rack that's not a ridiculous price. Oracle will gladly sell you racks that cost in excess of a million.
As will Cisco, or Dell, or HP.
With enterprise-ready hardware though, not consumers laptops that fail within a few years, even when they're not turned on 24/7.
Re: 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
#63There was similar post with ARM Chromebooks. A few years ago it was impossible to find stable ARMs which could sustain decent load without crashing. Company had to buy bunch of Chromebooks, strip batteries and put them into rack.
Do you have a link? This sounds like an interesting problem.
Re: 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
#64There was similar post with ARM Chromebooks. A few years ago it was impossible to find stable ARMs which could sustain decent load without crashing. Company had to buy bunch of Chromebooks, strip batteries and put them into rack.
Do you have a link? This sounds like an interesting problem.
It is a few years, no link, sorry.
Re: 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
#65That's pretty amazing. It would be interesting to hear more about the testing they are doing.
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#66Why are you keeping the lids partially open and drawing excessive power for the displays + backlight, instead of just using InsomniaX [1] ? [1] - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22211/insomniax
Why use a menubar program…?
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#67Only just realised from this that MacBook Pro's no longer have an Ethernet port! When did that happen? You need to buy an expensive thunderbolt adapter. I can understand removing it from the ultra portable super-thin models but not from the top end professional model.
A $30 adapter for a $2000+ machine isn't what I would call expensive. It does make the machines a lot thinner though and normally, you don't need wired Ethernet any more. I easily reach 60+ MB/s now over WiFi, so for the times where I really need the additional power I don't care about having the additional dongle with me.
There have been about 10 times in the last few years when I have walked into a meeting someplace where there wasn't any guest wifi, or we needed the internal network for other reasons.
Re: 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
#68Only just realised from this that MacBook Pro's no longer have an Ethernet port! When did that happen? You need to buy an expensive thunderbolt adapter. I can understand removing it from the ultra portable super-thin models but not from the top end professional model.
This is a constant frustration in the office.
Re: 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
#69Only just realised from this that MacBook Pro's no longer have an Ethernet port! When did that happen? You need to buy an expensive thunderbolt adapter. I can understand removing it from the ultra portable super-thin models but not from the top end professional model.
My desktop is basically filled with an octopus of dongles these days. It's ugly and annoying, and increases the footprint of my laptop 2x. I guess USB-C is supposed to help with this?
Bad news: Ethernet ain't going anywhere in the foreseeable future. So you'll still be stuck with a USB-C-to-Ethernet dongle :(
But at least you'll be able to hide all the dongles behind some wall and just have a single USB-C cable running from your laptop to a powered hub.