macduty

Dedicated Mac mini, hosted in Europe

A Mac mini on duty, around the clock.

One Mac mini in our racks, yours alone.

M1 to M6, macOS installed clean, SSH and remote desktop in minutes, one flat month, the same at renewal.

  • Every generation, M1 to M6
  • Bare metal, not a virtual machine
  • SSH and remote desktop in minutes
  • Hosted in the EU, under the GDPR
See which Macs are in stock today

Five generations, 2020 to 2026

Pick your Mac.

Choose a generation, then the memory and the disk.

a month, paid yearly + VAT
from €7.99 a day
From €52
from the order to your first SSH prompt
< 10 min
uptime target, credited if we miss it
99.9%
of your data in the EU, under the GDPR
100%

Or send us the one you have

Colocation.

A Mac mini in a drawer earns nothing. Post it to us and it runs around the clock in the same racks, from €30 a month. It stays yours the whole time.

  • Power, not metered

    Your Mac runs around the clock and we do not read a meter. No watt caps, no power bill on top, nothing to estimate before you ship.

  • 10 TB a month

    On a gigabit port, with a public IPv4 address, an IPv6 block of your own, and reverse DNS on request.

  • The mount is ours

    You do not need a shelf, a rail or a bracket. Send the bare Mac mini and we mount, label and cable it.

  • Power cycled on request

    A Mac mini has no lights-out management. Write to us and we cut and restore its power, at any hour.

What we take, and how it goes

What you get

Included with every Mac.

Every Mac mini we rack comes with the same setup, whatever the chip.

  • The whole Mac is yours

    One Mac mini, one customer. No virtual machines and nobody else on it.

  • macOS, ready to use

    The latest macOS, installed fresh on every Mac, or an older one on request before handover, as far back as the chip allows. Add your SSH public key in the client area and it reaches the Mac within minutes.

  • SSH and remote desktop

    Log in over SSH or open the desktop with macOS screen sharing, from the first minute.

  • A fast, dedicated port

    A dedicated gigabit port on every Mac, with a public IPv4 and IPv6 address.

  • Restart, reset and reinstall yourself

    Restart the Mac, reset its password, manage its SSH keys and reinstall macOS from the client area, at any hour, without a ticket.

  • The real desktop

    RustDesk, the smoothest, with a server of its own on your Mac, from Mac, Windows, Linux or a phone. Or Screen Sharing from a Mac and a VNC client on Windows and Linux.

  • Failed hardware replaced

    If the Mac fails, we replace it with the same model, and we tell you when. Data on the failed Mac cannot be moved, so keep your own copies.

Hosted in Europe

  • Racks in the EU.

    The Macs and everything on them stay in the European Union.

  • GDPR.

    Your data is processed under the GDPR. A data processing agreement is available on request.

    Read more

  • Nothing leaves the EU.

    Nothing is copied outside the Union.

Xcode, tests, desktops, renders

What runs on them.

The same jobs a Mac does on a desk, without the desk.

  • Xcode and CI.

    A self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions, GitLab or Jenkins. Builds start at once, with nobody else in the queue.

  • Tests on real Apple silicon.

    The same chips your users have, M1 to M6, side by side. No emulator, no Intel Mac standing in.

  • A Mac that is always on.

    A development machine or a desktop you reach from anywhere, exactly as you left it.

  • Renders and media.

    Final Cut, Logic and Compressor jobs, a Plex or Jellyfin library, a build farm for the App Store.

From the pick to the prompt
  1. 01

    Pick a Mac.

    Choose the generation, the memory and the disk. The price is on the card and stays the same next month.

  2. 02

    We set it up.

    A fresh macOS, a login and a public address. Ready builds are yours within minutes, the rest within days.

  3. 03

    You log in.

    SSH or Screen Sharing, from anywhere. Restart it, reset its password or cancel it from the client area.

Agents, in production

Running on MacDuty.

Two agents that do a job every day, each on one Mac.

Built for AI agents

An agent that only runs while your laptop is open is not running. A Mac mini in a rack does not close: it keeps its session, its logins and its files between runs, and it answers at any hour.

One customer per machine, a real macOS desktop rather than a container, and enough memory to hold a local model. In the EU.

A Mac that runs your agents

Before you pick

Frequently asked questions.

The ones people ask before the first month. Anything else, write to us below.

What do I get?

A Mac mini in our racks, yours alone, with macOS installed and SSH and remote desktop access. We keep it powered, cooled and connected. You use it like a Mac on your desk.

How is it billed?

By the day, the week, the month or the year, in EUR or USD, at the same price when you renew. A day and a week follow the Mac's month: on an M6 with 16 GB a day is 14.99 EUR and a day by the week 9.99, less on a smaller Mac and more on a bigger one, with a 24-hour minimum. A year takes a fifth off and is paid once.

Is hosting macOS allowed?

Yes. Apple's licence allows macOS on Apple hardware rented to one customer for at least 24 hours at a time. There is no virtualisation in between.

How fast is it ready?

Builds marked in stock are handed over within minutes. In three days means we have the Mac but it is not yet racked. The 2026 Macs reach our racks from 9 October and are handed over in order of request.

Are there snapshots or backups?

Not yet. Backup to S3 storage arrives with the 2026 Macs, as a separate service with its own price per terabyte, and this page will say so the day it is on. Until then, back up to your own storage.

Which generations are there?

Every Mac mini with an Apple chip: M1, M2 and M2 Pro, M4 and M4 Pro, M5 Pro and M6. There is no M3 and no plain M5 Mac mini, because Apple never made them.

Can I use a remote desktop?

Yes. From a Mac, use Screen Sharing with your user and password. From Windows or Linux, use TightVNC or TigerVNC with the VNC password. SSH is on from the start.

Which macOS versions can I run?

The latest macOS, installed fresh. If you need another version, ask before we hand the Mac over and we install that one instead. How far back depends on the chip, because no Apple silicon Mac runs a macOS older than the one it shipped with: the M1 from macOS 11 Big Sur, the M2 and M2 Pro from macOS 13 Ventura, the M4 and M4 Pro from macOS 15.1 Sequoia, and the M5 Pro and M6 run macOS 27 only. If you pin a version, turn off automatic updates: we update nothing behind you, but macOS keeps offering it, and an update you did not mean to take can end a test run.

What if the Mac fails?

We replace it with the same model, and we tell you when. There are no snapshots and data on the failed Mac cannot be moved, so keep your own backups.

Is there a KVM or out-of-band console?

No. You restart, reset the password and reinstall macOS from the client area; if macOS will not boot, the reinstall is the way back, and it erases the disk. A disk encrypted with FileVault stops at a password prompt on every boot that nobody can type, so leave FileVault off.

Anything else

Answered by the people who run the racks.