What it takes to run Macs in a datacenter: custom MacBook racks, virtualizing macOS with Apple's Virtualization framework, and building and distributing huge VM images across the fleet.
apple/container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
Is the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over?
Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient than the NVIDIA-Powered Cloud-Bound Hyperscalers...
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A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - apple/container
Jon Kelley on Twitter / X
Several months of work went into building Devin's Cloud Mac!We had to rebuild its disk, networking, provisioning, VNC, and computer use from scratch, in Rust. Read my first X article about how it all works 😊 https://t.co/bara9pu2WP— Jon Kelley (@jkelleyrtp) September 19, 2026
macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review
Big Sur is a big deal. The OS picks up where Catalina left off, further rationalizing Apple’s product lineup through design, new ways to bring apps to the Mac, and updates to existing system apps. The approach realigns functionality across Apple’s platforms after years of divergence from their common foundation: Mac OS X. The result
Davit - a native macOS UI for Apple containers
Free, open-source, fully native. Run Linux containers on Apple silicon with Apple's container platform; no Docker Desktop required.
VMPal | Virtual Machines for Apple Silicon and AI Agents
macOS, Windows and Linux side by side on your Mac. Downloaded and installed for you, in minutes.
Apple Archives | TechRepublic
Get the latest Apple news, hands-on tips, and best practices for supporting and managing Macs in the workplace.
Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
It’s kind of crazy but the shitstorm of supply chain issues has created a new best-in-class local AI deployment: M5 Max MacBook clusters.- The memory unit economics are great - each MacBook has 128GB @ 614GB/s for $5k- M5 Max added tensor cores (Apple Neural Accelerators) with… https://t.co/f8STQ0tLZs pic.twitter.com/FLm3oOnyEl— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) May 14, 2026
Bringing macOS to Devin | Devin
Today, we're launching macOS support for Devin, extending Devin's autonomous cloud development workflows to iOS apps, native macOS applications, and any project that depends on Apple's development tools.
0xSero on Twitter / X
I told y’all this is the move. Heterogenous hardware is the way forward. Large cheap pools of mixed memory + specialized accelerators (Nvidia GPUs, DGX Spark, Cerebras wafers) The next year will be dominated by solutions that split the stack. - 3000$ for a used Mac Studio… https://t.co/zMlScSnJ0X— 0xSero (@0xSero) April 1, 2026
oMLX — LLM inference, optimized for your Mac
Native macOS inference server built on MLX with paged SSD KV caching for Apple Silicon.
Mount Thor — AI Execution Environments on Apple Hardware
Managed macOS environments for AI workloads that require native desktop access, persistent state, or model inference on Apple silicon.
Introducing Hybrid Compute on Mac
Perplexity Computer uses cloud AI and local models on Mac, keeping sensitive files and information on the device.
macOS Big Sur Review: Third age of Mac
Mac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene. The code it originated with, and many of the software managers and programmers who built it, came to A…
