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

• FireBeyond 5mo ago
  They discontinued the 512GB Studio, and the Pro is gone, so no fear there now.
  • naikrovek 5mo ago
    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
• naikrovek 5mo ago
  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 5mo ago
    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 5mo ago
      No kidding.
• stephenr 5mo ago
  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 5mo ago
    Yes we all realize that. It’s MacOS VMs that we want to run.
    • stephenr 5mo ago
      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 5mo ago
        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 5mo ago
          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.