Bare Metal Mac

M4 Pro is a powerhouse, and our own Matthew Pulsipher gives a deep dive into the new Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro, along with MacStadium’s M4 Mac mini guide and updated benchmarks.

M4 has arrived, and our own Matthew Pulsipher gives a first look at the ins and outs of the new Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro, along with updated benchmarks.

Apple recently announced the M4 Mac mini, complete with an external redesign. Our team of Mac experts highlight the important changes in the new mini and how it impacts MacStadium.

Start testing on macOS 15 Sequoia today with MacStadium Bare Metal Macs!

Apple’s Mac Studio with M1 Max is the perfect balance of power and affordability. Learn about the specs and key use cases before it’s gone.

Level up your macOS game development with MacStadium + Incredibuild. See how clustered cloud Macs deliver faster iOS builds and watch a live Unreal demo in this on-demand webinar.

Mobile game development on Apple platforms can pose unique challenges for developers. Luckily, we have answers to your most frustrating issues. Continue reading to discover mobile game development solutions.

Build lightweight, cross-platform desktop applications with Neutralinojs! Neutralinojs uses MacStadium for developing and testing their software on macOS. Continue reading to learn more about Neutralinojs and how they use MacStadium’s open-source hosting solution.

Elevate your builds with Aurora Editor! Read to learn more about Aurora Editor and how they use MacStadium’s open-source hosting solution.

Turn your next ingenious idea into reality with Inkscape! Draw and design vector graphics for free on macOS in just a few clicks. Inkscape uses MacStadium to enable automatic macOS builds as a part of their CI system. Continue reading to learn more about what Inkscape is and how they’re using an open-source hosting solution like MacStadium to deliver open-source software to the Mac community.

Welcome to part 2 of our M3 Benchmark preview series. In this article, we take an early look at how M3 Max changes the Max and Ultra Apple Silicon chipsets used in the Mac Studio, as well as some more GPU-focused testing with the latest AI image generation models. We will also review how these changes will likely impact Mac Studio with M3, expected later next year.

Apple recently revealed the next generation of Apple Silicon, M3, as a part of their recent release of new MacBook Pros at the Scary Fast event. Join us as we take an early look at how the M3 and M3 Pro chips compare to existing M2 machines, and how M3 will impact future Mac mini releases.

Want to resize videos without sacrificing quality? Try HandBrake! HandBrake uses MacStadium to power their open-source video transcoder. Learn more about what makes HandBrake unique and how to start using it.

MacStadium’s Bare Metal lineup has a new naming system, making it easier than ever before to choose the perfect Mac.

Whether you’re designing a custom Mac cloud environment for your team or are a single iOS developer needing a more powerful build machine, MacStadium’s hardware benchmarks can help.

KVM helmets and new custom racks pave the way for truly automated Mac cloud environment creation and management for all MacStadium customers. Read on to learn how our team brought these patented innovations from imagination to creation.

MacStadium's Brian Stucki gives a first look at (and teardown of) the Mac mini with M2 Pro.

Apple recently announced a new powerhouse in its desktop lineup – the Mac Studio. As the first to offer new Mac devices in the cloud, we are happy to announce that we expect to have bare metal, cloud-hosted Mac Studios generally available by Summer’s end.

That was an ULTRA fabulous Apple Event! As is the MacStadium way, our team's already placing orders and planning rack configs. We were the first to have M1s in the cloud, and we'll be the first for Mac Studio.

MacStadium has data centers in Atlanta, Las Vegas, Silicon Valley and Dublin, Ireland. Learn about latency and how it may play into your choice of a data center location with MacStadium.

How are you testing your apps? In this blog post, we discuss the pros and cons of three different forms of testing: simulators, emulators, and physical devices.

Cirrus Insight uses its Mac mini and MacStadium account to ensure its software is usable on all platforms and solve customer problems.

No matter what your use case, MacStadium can help build an environment for you - just like we do for the company keeping your laptops from being naked, Sticker Mule.

Architecture, urban, and interior design firm hauserpartner needed a platform to test on multiple versions of macOS and to move to the cloud quickly after COVID-19. Read how they did it with a mini at MacStadium.

GitHub Actions, first released in 2019, is a free CI/CD system baked into GitHub. Grab your GitHub repo and see what you can do with GitHub Actions and your MacStadium hardware.

Excited to upgrade to Big Sur? Read this first. We discuss compatibility and provide useful information on how to upgrade to the latest macOS.

The Apple Mac “M1” chip was announced today. However, what was unexpected was an M1 Mac mini alongside the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. We are ready to rack this speedy new machine!

Iconscout needed a way to develop plugins for Mac apps, and keep everything running well in their CI pipeline. They looked to MacStadium to help get things started. Read their story now.

Cycling '74 needed the flexibility to develop software on multiple platforms using cross-platform languages. Jump in and see how they did it with a Mac mini at MacStadium.

The 2019 Mac Pro has some very unique features (including the awesome grate) - but does that mean it’s right for CI workloads? Let’s take a look.

TestFairy needed reliability to ensure their code would perform flawlessly, and they're using a Mac mini at MacStadium to ship out bulletproof code. We got their mini story from TestFairy Co-founder, Yair Bar-On.

Benepass set up their iOS CI pipeline using a Mac mini at MacStadium. We spoke with the lead engineer and chief technology officer at Benepass to see how they leveraged their mini to grow their business.

Relay FM never wanted to be limited in what they could do with a machine, so they selected a Mac mini at MacStadium, allowing them to basically do anything these needed, all with the power of macOS in the cloud.

As Dev and Ops teams combine to DevOps teams, ephemeral builds become a bigger pain point - don’t worry, we’ll walk you through the how-tos with Orka.

With work from home being the new normal, we discuss the different ways you can make use of the Mac mini sitting on a remote desk.

If you missed our recent 2018 Mac mini webinar, you missed a jam-packed session led by Kevin Beebe, MacStadium’s VP of Product Management. We’ve got a ton of follow-up Q&A and resources for you.

The 2018 Mac mini advanced performance and power. MacStadium re-engineered our racks for heat management, networking, scalability, and more. See how.

Recently, Brian Stucki demonstrated how to access a remote Mac mini on iPadOS 13.4. It was so cool, we wanted to share it with you here. Check it out!

The 2019 Mac Pros have arrived and our benchmarking has started! For this first round of benchmarking, we used NodeJS and Wikipedia’s iOS build. Check out the results we got when the new Pro was put up against its earlier counterparts.

Announced earlier this year during WWDC, the new Mac Pro is officially available to order today. As with every new release, MacStadium was first in line to get our hands on the latest and greatest Apple hardware, and can't wait to see how Orka performs on this new Mac.

Is your homegrown Mac mini build farm keeping pace with your organizational growth? If you're not sure, the MacStadium team has put together the top five signs it's time to make a change for the better.

So, what happens when the world starts upgrading Mac minis to the shiny new 2018 model? That old mini isn't dead yet! We've put together a list of ideas to repurpose your old mini and give it new life.

We've been hard at work making sure that the new Mac mini meets the same high expectations we have for all of our Mac infrastructure. We know you have questions about the status of the new mini, so we’re assembled this quick FAQ.

Coming soon! Harness the power of the iMac Pro in a private cloud from MacStadium. See a preview from WWDC...

When you say to yourself, "I'd love to try a Mac server but I just don't know what I'd do with it," take a look at this list. It's a mix of Mac apps, open source projects, and iOS tools.

Around summertime we got the first couple of teasers showing just how incredibly powerful the new iMac Pro was going to be and now we know that these iMac Pros are the most powerful Macs Apple has ever released to date.

As the Mac mini became Apple’s most popular server, we started to phase out the Xserve hosting. These machines were six times the size and way more power hungry than the Mac mini so they weren’t as profitable for us.

In this article, we'll go over the basic components of a Mac server and the purpose each component plays in making the server work. With this knowledge, the hardware can help you create the next app of the year.