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Had a customer who used this: https://www.macstadium.com/mac-pro/
They used them for more than an year and were happy. No experience myself.
Next month I'll be standing up some gear in a datcenter near San Francisco, I have a spare 2015 mac mini which I could install in that datacenter if that would be of interest to you?
You really got no idea what you're doing. Well, this is how you pay the price for ignorance XD.
I think I'm the only one to get a headless AMD APU to 3d accelerate on the radeon driver but if it makes you feel better you can think that. I'll be publishing a guide to share my findings with people looking to do the same. Regardless, the AMD HD 8400 seems somewhat underpowered for what we're trying to do. I think we'd like to go for a Class 2 card.
If you want a future on OSX, port to Metal. OpenGL works but is not Apple-y anymore and thus doomed after few more GPU/driver iterations.
HW wise the only choice is probably a Mac Pro as the Mac Minis have only iGPU (which still likely beats some crappy 8400) or a Mini with a TB3 chassis. Both are offered but not cheap.
But isn't the OpenGL driver used on MacOS the same core Unix driver used on any other Unix distro?
If OP isn't interested I might be interested in buying this.
Hey, I'll shoot you a PM about this.
Similar as to the Mach kernel being BSD.... in a way. My Realtek driver kext is also just some patched BSD drivers.
Thing is this is not really guaranteed from Apple, which controls OSX as package.
oh mai, a "class 2 card", "3d accelerate on the radeon driver". I've been blown XD
Apologies for going off-topic.
I don't usually respond to posts like yours - and I really should ignore you, but do you really have nothing better to do?
OP has come on and asked for help, either express your opinion in a constructive manner, help him out or kindly just move along.
K thanks bye.
Macincloud.com
The best one i found was https://www.macminivault.com - They offer month to month rentals. They also have a rent to own program which is very reasonable. They will build any macmini you want then divide by 12 months and pay a colo fee. after 12 months you own the server and the colo fee is very reasonable imo.