Pair + claim
One-use enrollment, authorized service IDs only.
Supply model
Idle Macs, hired for real media work.
An idle Mac render network uses available Apple Silicon - often overnight or between interactive sessions - to run bounded media jobs. RenderMac’s version prioritizes named services, thermal pause, and USD settlement over “share your watts” framing.
Why idle Macs fit media
- Our Remotion bakeoff showed M1 Airs finishing a 3-minute kinetic in 134–146 s - usable overnight supply.
- Package power on HeavyMotion averaged ~33 W on M2 Max; electricity is not the pricing floor.
- VideoToolbox encodes are Mac-only and dramatically faster than tiny Linux container shapes in our test.
Safety rails that matter
Heartbeat + lease
Liveness, slots, software version, thermal state.
Pause anytime
Stop claiming when the Mac is hot, in use, or manually paused.
Private pools first
Organization-private cells before public marketplace capacity.
Availability: public provider earnings are not a live guarantee in the current dogfood release. See the status page and provider console for what is actually enabled.