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Scaleway announces Apple Silicon M1 as-a-Service

I don’t know what I’m looking at. It looks like a comedy sketch.
 
I have had one running for the last few hours, pretty decent. Unfortunately, Scaleway is not that great a provider, their main brand name online.net is one I have had many issues with in the past along with a lot of others that report similar issues around support in particular.
 
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jdb8167 said:
While I don’t know for sure but my first guess would be money.
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Helpful ;) still not sure why 24 hours and according to the article this is technically an expansion of the licensing terms. I’m just not sure why it isn’t more permissive
 
People buying computers to rent an other computer, that doesn’t make sense at all.
 
UBS28 said:
People buying computers to rent an other computer, that doesn’t make sense at all.
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Well, I'm pretty sure Macrumors.com is running on rented computers. So you bought your computer and your computer is accessing a rented computer. Makes sense?

Actually, the most likely use case for something like this is things like automatically building your xCode project when you push new code to Github, or running automated tests, etc.

It's not for normal users.

I've made a case for Apple expanding Apple Silicon to the cloud here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-core-soc-for-mac-pro-now-what.2306486/page-8
 
crazy dave said:
Helpful ;) still not sure why 24 hours and according to the article this is technically an expansion of the licensing terms. I’m just not sure why it isn’t more permissive
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Obviously I was being flippant but it really is the most likely explanation. If all leases have to be 24 hours the service provider will need to purchase more Macs than if the leases were shorter.
 
jdb8167 said:
Obviously I was being flippant but it really is the most likely explanation. If all leases have to be 24 hours the service provider will need to purchase more Macs than if the leases were shorter.
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Hmmm maybe but I’m not sure that works as it also reduces the number of service providers who will view it as worth it as prospective customers have to overbuy and won’t. But maybe 24 hours is the minimum that most people lease for anyway … 🤷‍♂️
 
AWS has M1 Mac Mini too.

Why do cloud service providers start to offer M1 Mac Mini now?
 
crazy dave said:
Hmmm maybe but I’m not sure that works as it also reduces the number of service providers who will view it as worth it as prospective customers have to overbuy and won’t. But maybe 24 hours is the minimum that most people lease for anyway … 🤷‍♂️
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That assumes Apple wants more providers to offer remote Mac access. I don’t think that is a given. It might be that Apple is looking at others providing remote Macs as a necessary evil to avoid anti-trust complaints. We already know that Apple is starting to offer remote macOS services like Xcode Cloud.
 
jdb8167 said:
That assumes Apple wants more providers to offer remote Mac access. I don’t think that is a given. It might be that Apple is looking at others providing remote Macs as a necessary evil to avoid anti-trust complaints. We already know that Apple is starting to offer remote macOS services like Xcode Cloud.
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That makes sense.
 
Xiao_Xi said:
What are the use cases for this service?
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Probably most significant would be DevOps, specifically continuous integration/delivery/deployment.

There also might be other use cases: e.g., I've heard that running stockfish on M1 is pretty fun.
 
Is it possble to save the image and continue from that next "session" or does this only work with starting with a "clean" mac without any sw installed each time from scratch? Or need to pay rental ticking 2.4 euro / day no matter of used or not just to keep settigns installed tools etc??
 
januarydrive7 said:
Probably most significant would be DevOps, specifically continuous integration/delivery/deployment.
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Would not it be cheaper to own your Mac Mini?

If you rent a Mac Mini for at least 24 hours whenever you make a commit of your code, you most likely need one Mac Mini every day.
 
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