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What kind of testing do you do with this?

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How much money the VC is willing to waste

96(!) macbooks, 3D printing and thermal imaging. I think you're spot on.

This made my day. Unfortunately, it's probably accurate...

Meh, you could resell them and get most of your money back.

>"Synergy, You know what that means?" >"Does it mean take a stack of cash and light it on fire?"

This seems to be the author

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProfile.html?userID=...

and the products http://uk.mathworks.com/products/?s_tid=gn_ps

Ah nice, thank you.

They have tons of customers using this setup (Matlab on Macbook Pro) in my uni at least, so it makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for this.

Now i feel the OP's usage justified

An answer to this would be great. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stop thinking about that question for a while.

For many people that need to develop, test, and deploy on Mac hardware they're doing iOS app or OS X development.

For example, you may have a macbook pro, but it's not powerful enough to run tests in a few minutes while you do other work on it at the same time. In this case, you'd want another Mac like a Mini, Pro or Xserve to send jobs to.

Anyone using X Code has to run it on a Mac and often, you're wasting precious development time when your jobs are taking up your Macbook's processing power for an hour while it tests your latest build.

Travis-CI, the continuous integration platform, will send your jobs to a cloud of Mac servers when they require OS X to build against.

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