Quickstart

This guide takes you from an empty browser tab to a shell on a booked Mac Studio.

#Before you start

You need an SSH key. If you already have one in ~/.ssh, skip to the steps.

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Keep the .pub output handy. You paste that public key into your account, and it is installed on the Mac for you.

#Book and connect

1. 1Open Pricing and pick a chip, then a memory size on the card.
2. 2Choose Hourly for a fixed block of hours, or Monthly for a machine that stays up.
3. 3Enter your name, email, and the start time, then pay.
4. 4A free Mac is assigned straight away. Your booking page shows its host, user name, and port.
5. 5Paste your public key under SSH keys on that page. It reaches the Mac within a minute.
6. 6Copy the ssh command from the page and run it.

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -p PORT USER@HOST

#Check what you got

Once you are in, confirm the chip and memory match the booking.

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep -E "Chip|Memory"sysctl -n hw.memsize | awk '{ print $1 / 1073741824 " GB" }'