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BBKing · 12-01-2005, 08:59

Definitely tempted here - I have a server under my stairs which is 55cm high, built out of battleship steel, is rock solid reliable, 256Mb RAM, Duron 600Mhz (ok, it's old) and runs FreeBSD 4. If I can replace that with a box the size of a small brick which weighs naff all, can sit under my router, has superior performance, the same reliability, a more modern version of FreeBSD, runs all my current server software (ssh, webserver, DNS server, Samba fileserver, mail gateway, IRC client) at approximately the price of a new motherboard, RAM and CPU for the current box but plug and play I'll bite their hands off. Never mind the OS X front end. And the missus has been badgering me for an iPod - that ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£69 one will do nicely (miserly, am I...).

Actually, the rest of my family are all Macophiles, apart from my dad who has a Dell laptop on which he installs spyware, judging by the results of the last adaware scan I made on it. Should stick to the Mac.

I love x86_64, incidentally, my office workstation is an Opteron 150 running 64-bit Linux (a boring RHEL respin, cos we use RHEL and clones on servers and I need to test stuff before deployment using the same OS) and it's fine, barring the odd compilation problem on obscure code. But there's definitely a place for this Mac mini - I'd like to see how many you can fit in a couple of U of server rack space - a small web farm of 5 or so would take naff all room and cost half as much as a modern 2 CPU server.

12-01-2005, 08:59	#45
BBKing R.I.P. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Services: 20Mb VM CM, Virgin TV Posts: 5,983	Re: Details of New Apple Mac Mini Definitely tempted here - I have a server under my stairs which is 55cm high, built out of battleship steel, is rock solid reliable, 256Mb RAM, Duron 600Mhz (ok, it's old) and runs FreeBSD 4. If I can replace that with a box the size of a small brick which weighs naff all, can sit under my router, has superior performance, the same reliability, a more modern version of FreeBSD, runs all my current server software (ssh, webserver, DNS server, Samba fileserver, mail gateway, IRC client) at approximately the price of a new motherboard, RAM and CPU for the current box but plug and play I'll bite their hands off. Never mind the OS X front end. And the missus has been badgering me for an iPod - that ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£69 one will do nicely (miserly, am I...). Actually, the rest of my family are all Macophiles, apart from my dad who has a Dell laptop on which he installs spyware, judging by the results of the last adaware scan I made on it. Should stick to the Mac. I love x86_64, incidentally, my office workstation is an Opteron 150 running 64-bit Linux (a boring RHEL respin, cos we use RHEL and clones on servers and I need to test stuff before deployment using the same OS) and it's fine, barring the odd compilation problem on obscure code. But there's definitely a place for this Mac mini - I'd like to see how many you can fit in a couple of U of server rack space - a small web farm of 5 or so would take naff all room and cost half as much as a modern 2 CPU server.