![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, it's very sad that there is no quad core option now. Regarding the new model though, it says something when releasing a new model sends prices for the old one through the roof. With recent developments, I'd go with Linux over OSX for gaming too. It's horrifically slow, especially over the network, even gigabit. If you have specific server-type stuff, BSD could be more stable there. ![]() ![]() Debian (not my favourite distro), on the other hand, works fine. KDE took around 14 hours to compile and then it failed. You can do the others, but its just harder, especially if you have to compile the stuff on ageing hardware. If you want a *nix-like OS for the desktop, I'd go with linux. There's no FLOSS ISCSI for OSX either as far as I can tell. I think mostly the problem is that so few people use OSX for server tasks, things aren't well tested. I rsync'ed the same content to a linux and shared out over NFS and it was so fast I thought it had failed. It didn't go well with (I think) samba on OSX falling over a lot. I tried sharing out an iTunes directory over samba and getting Amarok to suck it in. OSX just makes things hard, like trying to do NFS. In the new Mac Mini I'm still able to upgrade the HD to an SSD quite easily, but the CPU speed is still 60% of the previous model.Īnd there was me thinking OSX was built on MACH. I can't have been the only person who was doing this because of the stupidly high costs of the Mac Pro.Īpples response is to do away with the quad core edition, reduce it to a 2 core range and remove the RAM upgrade option. It was irrelevant to me that I'm invalidating the warranty, because of the savings I've made by doing this for an entire floor. This came in under half the cost of the lowest spec Mac Pro, and out performed it. And replacing the 4GB ram with 16, and the internal 5400rpm hard disk with a 1TB ssd. I was buying Mac Mini quad cores up until last week. The real reason for this crippled machine is the current Mac Mini was a threat to the new Mac Pro black-circular-ash-tray edition. They will however let existing and future Mac owners buy the server software for $15 They no longer market it as a server machine. Re: To think Apple once marketed the Mini as a server machine (do they still do that)? ![]()
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