 Hello everybody and welcome back to another Ethan journal video. So today's video is a Different type of video. I guess you could say it's not a tutorial It's more on the side of a review in my first impressions of an app that I found now It's not really an app It's more of a toolkit as you will soon see but today we're gonna be checking out orca toolkit from max stadium Let's head over to the web browser so I can kind of show you what I'm talking about So this is max stadium they provide Cloud-based Mac, so like if you need a Mac For something running Mac OS for some server application or app and you don't you don't want to buy a Mac But you still want to have that they can give you basically a virtualized Mac mini in the cloud Kind of like what you would get with a Linux server through the node or AWS I've loved their stuff. I love their team. They do some amazing things and I didn't realize this But apparently they have something called orca toolkit If I can find it I forgot where I grabbed it from Maybe I have to search for it But yeah, they have this thing called orca toolkit which basically allows you to take your own Mac device Virtualized Mac OS on that an entirely contained environment So kind of like virtual box, but it's completely plug-and-play it downloads a legitimate copy of Mac OS from Apple Installs the whole thing for you inside of a virtual machine So I've already gone ahead and downloaded it and if I go ahead and I open up orca toolkit And I pull it over It's really simple the first screen you get like system information and stuff You can edit how you want to configure your devices. I always I kind of experimented with what I think would work I have an M1 Mac mini with an M1 processor, which has eight cores and 16 gigabytes of RAM so with that in mind I went ahead and gave it half of my CPU and 8 gigabytes of memory so half of both of those as well as 50 gigabytes of storage doing this I went ahead and I installed the first virtual machine and It was really quick and simple if I go in to create a new one here And I'm just gonna name this demo Mac And I go in and let's go download the latest That's basically going to go ahead and download the latest copy of Mac OS venture and install that on this Mac mini Virtualized Mac mini in this case set that up you choose your screen resolution where you want it to be stored and click install I've already done that for us, so I'm going to close out of that But I will go ahead and start up this version right here so doing this you'll notice it'll take a second to open up the window and Forget where it's going to open itself up in oh it did a full screen window one second. I got to pull it up over here Here we go, so here is what it renders. It's literally just a regular window box here and Just like you would have a normal Mac as you can see I've already made an account If I log in boom, it will literally be a virtualized Mac mini here If I go into about this Mac like I wouldn't normally on a regular Mac. It actually says Apple Virtual Machine 1 And then it says Apple M1 Virtual 8 gigabytes It comes up with a serial number that is completely different than a regular Mac mini serial number I don't know how it does that but it's pretty neat and of course it's running Mac OS Ventura So it's basically a cleanest dull of Mac OS Ventura. Everything works as it normally would So I can go ahead and let's say I want to download Firefox. I can head over to Firefox Dot-com and it'll bring me over to Missile like normally would can download that it has full access to their internet through the computer You're virtualizing it with I was experimenting a little bit with trying to get it to run some addition of Like a web server to try and see if I could virtualize this in some way and make it like a cloud server on my Mac mini I might even try and get this thing to become a crypto mining machine and then they can have like four virtualized Mac minis all Mining crypto at the same time. I think that'd be kind of a cool idea either way It's just a really neat system and the fact that it's free is also really neat, too Now if I actually go back to Mac stadium and we look at something like this and of course they have They have their pricing for what their virtualized Mac stuff is You can get a Mac mini 2018 and for $89 a month. So that's still an Intel But if you go with the same one I have right here, it's $99 a month now I bought this computer once at $1,200 with the education discount back in 2020 when it came out So if we do the math on that We go $1,200 divided by let's see they were doing $99 a month Basically in about a year worth of Virtualizing a server on my Mac mini. I would have paid off this Mac mini rather than using in the cloud I don't know what that analogy is for it just popped up in my head But either way that kind of goes to show now I Under my understanding the reason that this app exists is for testing out software Developers can use it to experiment with programs. They might be building Yeah, and if you go over to their page and looking at it again Yeah, it is for mainly testing and quality assurance testing out. I'm assuming different versions of stuff Get started with work a toolkit and stuff like that. So yeah, if you have a Mac, honestly, it's really neat It's really modern. It works great. I'm not sponsored by Mac Stadium in any way I just kind of saw this on Twitter from one of their administrators and it's really neat like I actually kind of like it and Virtualizing M1 stuff right now isn't the best like I have this program pop back over to the desktop now on my actual Mac I have a program called UTM Which is how you can virtualize stuff with Mac M1 because it has the ability to emulate different CPU architectures Um, and I have used it. It's just really slow like running a really simple Ubuntu server instance It's slower than my 2005 Server that I have in the other room that hosts like five websites at the same time And this is on an emulated M1 Running an emulation of x86 So that kind of just goes to show that it isn't the best It's very power intensive too. Like it's super slow in the emulation But it's also like really really power intensive like my my mac mini. I have a little menu bar item that lets me see What the heat inside of my machine is defaults like 33 degrees celsius when I boot this thing up It goes straight up to 70 degrees celsius which for an M1 equipped Mac is really high and Anything any resources that aren't being used by other apps in my mac mini that thing just takes them all at the same time And I had zero percent idling Which is kind of strange, but again, it's a it's a beta app as far as I know and utm runs Some virtual ethan find it when you're editing this It runs that a virtualizing program that you can access from the terminal and apparently doing it that way Is a lot faster than using this front-facing app of utm But either way, um, there's all those options out there. I'll leave both Orca toolkit in the description And utm if you want to try that out Um, basically I just kind of wanted to showcase some M1 virtualization I can go more in depth than another video if you guys want that But until then I hope you guys enjoyed be sure to subscribe if you like the video and see y'all next time. Bye. Bye