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Need help either Mac mini or Mac mini Server?
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(Last edited by reader50; Jun 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM.
(Reason:removed commercial affiliate codes from links))
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Well, heck, how should we know if you need SL server or not.
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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I've helped by despamming all your links. Please avoid posting affiliate code links, or commercial redirects. Direct product links work great.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Apple sells it direct with free shipping. If you order it from them, they'll also have you int heir records already if you ever need to call for help. I also like to journey to the nearest Apple store to play with everything and and get the computer right away. Those are just ideas. Apple also offers a significant education discount if you are in college.
The normal model uses Snow Leopard, one hard drive, and one optical drive.
The server model costs more, and you get Snow Leopard Server, two hard drives, no optical drive, and a bit faster CPU and more RAM.
For a desktop machine, I would buy the base model. If you need more RAM, you can easily upgrade it later for cheaper yourself. If you need a bigger hard drive, you can either get an external or upgrade it yourself (but this will be a bit of a chore). The CPU isn't upgradable, but I sincerely doubt you'd notice the difference between the 2.4Ghz C2D and the 2.6Ghz C2D.
If you want a little inexpensive Mac server, that's what the other model is for. It isn't available with the regular desktop OS. This won't hurt you except that that is a major factor in the difference of the cost between the machines. Not having an optical drive is bad news, but of course you could buy Apple's $100 external one.
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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or a 50 dollar samsung drive. Personally while I like the optical driveless look of the server, I think I'd probably go for the normal one myself, if needbe up the process in BTO, but there's a decent chance I'd wanna make it into a home theatre mac later.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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You don't want to run the server version of the OS on a your main machine. Its a more complicated OS doing more things by default so it will be less reliable as something to watch movies or surf the web on.If you actually need to file share to more than 10 machines, or to run your own email server, or webserver, then you could consider the Server version, otherwise you are wasting money on an OS you shouldn't use. If money isn't an issue, then go for it, but put client SL on it if you want to do regular client type stuff on it.
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MacBook 2.0GHz CD; MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz Late '08; PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1GHz; 3x Xserve G4 1GHz; Mac Mini 2GHz; Big pile of broken and working bits;
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