Namespace racks hundreds of MacBook Pros to serve macOS instances
What happened
A Hacker News front-page post on November 3 covered Namespace deploying MacBook Pros at scale in a data center. Namespace unboxed hundreds of MacBook Pros and installed them in data center racks to provide macOS instances to customers. The setup can boot macOS from zero in seconds and deliver a new Xcode version to customers within hours of Apple releasing it. The disclosed details cover rack scale, macOS instance boot speed and Xcode delivery; nothing further is given.
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- Hacker News front pageMac at Any Scale
Namespace 将数百台 MacBook Pro 拆箱部署进数据中心机架，用于为客户提供 macOS 实例，并可在数秒内从零启动 macOS、在 Apple 发布新 Xcode 后数小时内交付新版本。
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