A Mac built for
Xcode, on tap.
Every Cobalt session runs on its own Apple Mac mini with the M4 chip — a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16 GB of unified memory and a 256 GB SSD — with Xcode already installed.
The silicon under the hood
One configuration for every session: Apple's M4 Mac mini.
Apple M4 with 4 performance and 6 efficiency cores — Swift compiles across all of them.
Drives Metal, the SwiftUI canvas and Simulator rendering on the Mac itself.
Shared by the CPU and GPU, so Xcode, a Simulator and Instruments work from one pool.
Internal NVMe for your repositories, DerivedData and archives.
A whole Mac, not a slice of one
Nobody else uses the machine while it is yours, so Xcode behaves exactly as it does on a Mac on your desk.
- The whole machine is yours for the session — a physical Mac, not a virtual one
- Xcode is installed, with the iOS Simulator and Instruments that come with it
- Full administrator access: add Homebrew, Fastlane, CocoaPods or anything else you use
- Archive in Xcode and upload to TestFlight with your own App Store Connect account
- Runs macOS Tahoe, Apple's current release
Mac mini M4
Dedicated Apple Silicon machine
Cobalt vs. buying a Mac
Rent the Mac for the days you need it.
| Cobalt | Buying your own | |
|---|---|---|
| Up front | Nothing — top up credits | The price of a Mac |
| Commitment | A day, a week or a month | Years |
| Access | Any computer, over AnyDesk | One desk |
| Maintenance | None | Yours |
Your own Mac, no hardware to buy
Order a Mac mini, connect over AnyDesk and start building in Xcode — nothing to buy or maintain.