The Mac mini Server

miniserverListing at $999.99, The mini Snow Leopard server doesn’t carry a very mini price tag. But it’s only $100 more than a Mac mini equipped with the same CPU and RAM and an optical drive instead of the second 500GB HD.

So Apple is basically charging you $100 to remove the optical drive and install an additional 500GB HD. Which, in all honesty isn’t that bad of a price for a 2.5″ 500GB SATA drive. This second drive in place of the optical drive brings the mini’s total internal storage capacity to 1TB! Pair that with it’s GeForce 9400M and you have HD ready media center. Set this next to your beautiful Plasma or LCD and you could experience a truly wonderful experience.

So although it may be a slight investment, Your getting 1TB of internal storage and 4GBs of RAM in box less than 2″ high and 6.5″ long. So, great storage capabilities, a solid amount of RAM, a speedy 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and a powerful 9400M make for a pretty powerful system in a small, functional package.

More info about the mini server here

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2 Responses to “The Mac mini Server”

  1. Rupert Ferder Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at %0:%Nov %p

    I would have thought having an optical drive was pretty essential to a media centre.
    Therefore a normal Mac Mini would be a better choice

  2. Luke Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at %0:%Nov %p

    I totally understand where you are coming from. If it (the mini) came with a Blu-ray drive instead of a standard CD/DVD I would agree with you. But the quality of media delivered by DVDs and CDs isn’t much better than what is available for download. So in the end I guess it comes down to which medium you prefer. :) The vast majority of my media is downloaded and thus is sitting on my hard drive.

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