Dedicated Mac Hosting
In secure, professionally managed data centers.
Summit hosts dedicated Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro systems in enterprise-grade data centers worldwide.
Sign upBlazing performance, backed by expert support.
Use Summit-provided Macs or bring your own fleet.
Either way, your environment lives in enterprise-grade infrastructure with 24/7 support behind it.
We Provide the Hardware
Summit-Provided Mac
Summit stocks the latest Apple Silicon hardware, racks it in our enterprise facilities, and manages it end-to-end. No procurement process, no capital outlay. Just tell us what you need and we’ll have it running.
Starting at $169/unit/month
Best for
Teams that want the fastest path to dedicated Apple Silicon without buying or shipping hardware.
What you get
You Own the Hardware
Bring Your Own Mac
Already own Mac hardware? Ship it to us. We’ll receive, inspect, rack, and cable your machines in our enterprise data center, then manage the infrastructure layer so you’re not babysitting hardware remotely.
Starting at $50/unit/month
The more you bring, the bigger the discount — host 10 Mac Minis starting at $285/month.
Best for
Teams with existing Mac investments who want enterprise-grade facilities and hands-on support without buying new hardware.
What you get
Pick your Mac. We’ll handle the rest.
We stock and manage Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro systems, from compact clusters to high-core-count workhorses. Use Summit-provided hardware or bring your own.
Mac Mini
Compact, silent, and surprisingly powerful. Mac Mini with M4 or M4 Pro is the go-to for CI/CD pipelines, app signing, and high-density AI inference clusters where space and power efficiency matter. Shelf-mounted nodes pack tightly in the rack and draw only tens of watts each under typical load.
Mac Studio
The large-memory compute node. Mac Studio with M4 Max supports up to 64GB of unified memory; M3 Ultra comes with 96GB. Purpose-built for demanding workloads: LLM inference, 8K video processing, and complex Xcode builds.
Mac Pro
The rack-mountable option. Mac Pro with M2 Ultra slots directly into standard data center racks and gives you PCIe expansion for specialized cards, perfect for broadcast, post-production, or any workflow that needs hardware acceleration beyond what’s built in.
Prefer to colocate your own hardware? We support that too. Bring your Macs and we’ll rack, cable, and manage them.
Built for the work only a Mac can do.
Apple Silicon is unlike anything else on the market. Here’s what you can do with it: workflows that require real macOS hardware, not workarounds.
Already building on Mac? Your pipeline should be too.
Cloud CI runners share infrastructure across thousands of customers. A dedicated Mac node at Summit gives your builds priority access to Apple Silicon, with no queuing, no throttling, no per-minute billing that makes the math painful at real build volumes.
Register your Summit Mac as a self-hosted runner with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Fastlane, Buildkite, or CircleCI. Code signing, provisioning profile management, notarization, and App Store Connect submissions all run directly on the node, with no virtual machines and no workarounds.
Why dedicated Mac CI beats cloud runners
Run your own AI models without a GPU cluster.
Apple Silicon’s unified memory means the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine all share the same pool of fast memory, so a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96GB of unified memory can load and run open models that overflow a typical GPU’s VRAM, with room to cluster machines for larger workloads.
Tools like LM Studio, Ollama, Clawdbot, and OpenClaw make it easy to run open models like Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and Phi locally, with full privacy, no API costs, and no usage limits. Pair that with frameworks like llama.cpp optimized for Apple’s Metal GPU API, and you’ve got a seriously capable private AI backend.
Why Apple Silicon for AI?
Give your team a real Mac, anywhere in the world.
Providing Mac desktops to distributed teams used to mean shipping hardware around the world and accepting security tradeoffs. Summit hosts real Apple Silicon in secure, enterprise data centers and enables remote access on top of it, so you choose the level of performance, control, and integration you need.
Mac VDI at Summit works with the remote desktop tools your team already uses: NoMachine, Parsec, HP Anyware, Apple Screen Sharing, Citrix, and others. Summit manages the hardware and infrastructure layer. You manage the access method.
Why host your Mac VDI at Summit?
Fast in. Fast between. Fast out.
We spec your network to match your actual workload, not just whatever’s easiest for us to provision.
1GbE & 10GbE Networking
We spec the right connection for your workload. 1GbE covers most CI/CD and dev use cases comfortably. Step up to 10GbE when you’re moving large assets like 4K/8K media, model weights, and database snapshots, and the difference between waiting and working matters.
Thunderbolt 4 & 5 Interconnects
Link Mac Minis or Mac Studios directly using Thunderbolt 5, up to 120Gbps node-to-node. Share storage, build distributed AI inference pipelines, or create a tightly coupled render cluster between machines in the same rack. (Mac Pro ships with Thunderbolt 4.)
Private Circuits & Cloud Interconnects
Low-latency private connections to your office, your cloud environment, or other Summit facilities. No public internet in your data path: just clean, fast, dedicated bandwidth.
100+ Gbps Global IP Network
Summit runs its own global IP backbone. Your Macs connect directly, with no third-party transit hops, no unnecessary latency, and access to data center locations across North America, Europe, and APAC.
Secure Remote Access
SSH, VPN, screen sharing: whatever your team uses, we make it work over a secure, authenticated connection. Your developers get in quickly; nobody else does.
We can manage 1 Mac or 1,000. Most places can’t say that.
Summit keeps spare parts on site, runs a 24/7 Remote Hands team, and holds an annual Type II AT-101 SOC 2 audit, meaning your Mac environment lives inside an infrastructure that satisfies PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and other compliance frameworks. That’s a lot harder to find in a Mac colocation provider than you’d think.
The things that matter in a Mac hosting partner.
Anyone can rack a Mac. Here’s what sets Summit apart.
Spare Parts On Site
Hardware fails. We keep spare components at each facility so replacements happen in hours, not days. No waiting for a part to ship before your build pipeline comes back online.
24/7 Remote Hands
Need a hard reboot at 2am? A cable replaced? Someone to physically inspect a machine? Our on-site team is there whenever you need them, included in your service, not an add-on.
SOC 2 Type II Audited
Annual AT-101 SOC 2 audits. Your Mac environment satisfies the same compliance requirements as the rest of your enterprise infrastructure: PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and beyond.
Custom Environments
Need a weird setup? Specific OS versions, custom networking topology, mixed Mac and Linux nodes? We engineer around your requirements, not the other way around.
Global Footprint
Data centers across North America, Europe, and APAC. Put your Mac nodes where your users are, or where compliance requires them to be.
Managed Migrations
Moving Mac hardware from your office or another provider? Our team handles the logistics, configuration, and cutover, so your team stays productive through the transition.
You’re up in days, not months.
No six-month procurement process. No IT project plan. Just tell us what you need and we’ll get it running.
Tell Us What You’re Building
A quick conversation about your use case, workload, and team size. We’ll recommend the right hardware, networking, and quantity to get you started.
We Rack, Cable & Configure
Summit provisions the hardware, sets up your network, and configures access. If you’re colocating your own Macs, we handle receipt, inspection, and installation.
Connect & Get to Work
SSH in, point your CI agent at the new node, fire up LM Studio. Whatever your first step is, we’re there to make sure the handoff is clean and your team can hit the ground running.
Trusted by the best.
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I don’t know of any other shop that would’ve helped a startup like us grow in a colocation-based business as quickly as we have. Summit enabled us to have a presence in a flagship data center and helped us grow into the medium-to-large business that we are.
Common Questions
Everything you need to know before getting started.
Mac hosting is built for workflows that require real macOS hardware, not workarounds. This includes iOS and macOS development, CI/CD pipelines, Safari web testing, AI on Apple Silicon, cross-platform mobile development, and secure dedicated Mac desktops.
Yes. If you already own Mac hardware, ship it to us and we’ll receive, inspect, rack, and cable it in our enterprise facility. Summit handles the infrastructure layer: power, cooling, networking, and 24/7 Remote Hands, while you retain ownership of the machines. It’s Mac colocation, not just a shelf in a closet.
Apple Silicon enables AI on-device with unified memory shared across CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine. This allows developers to run and iterate on large language models locally for development, testing, and mid-scale workloads, while large-scale training and production deployments continue to rely on dedicated NVIDIA GPU infrastructure. Running models locally also keeps data private and helps avoid API costs during development.
Yes. A Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96GB of unified memory can load and run open models locally, and you can pool memory across machines with Thunderbolt clustering for larger ones. Tools like LM Studio, Ollama, and llama.cpp make it easy to run models locally, with acceleration depending on framework support such as Apple’s Metal or MLX. Not all tools and models support MLX yet, so capabilities may vary by setup.
You can choose 1GbE or 10GbE networking depending on your workload, and connect through private circuits or cloud interconnects for scalable, high-performance connectivity. Thunderbolt 4 or 5 can be used for local device expansion and high-speed peripherals. Summit’s global IP network provides low-latency connectivity without relying on public internet paths.
Your Mac environment runs inside infrastructure that meets enterprise compliance standards, including SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA. Secure remote access is provided via SSH, with VPN via upstream firewalls. Only authorized users can connect.
You can be up and running in days. Summit handles hardware provisioning, racking, cabling, and configuration so your team can connect and start working immediately. No long procurement cycles or complex setup required.
Get Mac Hosting from Summit
Tell us what you’re building and we’ll put together a spec and quote, usually within one business day.