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Originally Posted by BBKing
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 <snip>
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Sounds like the PC under my desk..
It has a Celeron 600, 256 Meg Ram. About 28 gig of storage on assorted hard drives and runs Windows 2000 Server, coldfusion server, flash comms server, IIS and Windows Media Server (all fully patched and protected by firewall). It's my second PC at work, and I use it to play around with Server side stuff and web development. As I pointed out to my Boss, no one else needs it (it's too low powered for XP) and it's better I play around on my own server rather than the production servers. That way, if I bugger it up, nobody is affected apart from me.
I also use it for Lab managment stuff.
The MacMini is interesting though. I won't be buying one. At home I already have a Tower PC and a laptop running XP Pro, another Tower running 2003 server, all running licenced copies of Windows (Ahh, the joys of working for a Uni that's a member of the "Microsoft Academic Alliance" - I get one copy of each development tool or OS free, although I did buy my first copy of XP at the standard student price), so an extra Mac will be difficult to justify.