The Great - The Mini
I have a number of MacBooks in my house but decided I needed one central machine to act as a server. I bought the base Mac Mini from the refurb store, along with a cheap 23" monitor and a 2nd hand Mac keyboard from ebay. The Mac Mini now gets used all the time, it is great for just about everything, including games. I have installed OS X server and added a couple of 2TB/3TB drives for storage, I am playing around with the OS X Server update caching and time machine features.
The one upgrade I did was to replace the stock 500GB hard drive with a 1TB Momentus XT Hybrid drive, the Mac Mini is now nearer to the performance of an SSD MacBook. Followed all the instructions I found on the web, only took around 20 minutes.
Exactly...
As I remarked in another thread:
"Long Live the Mac Mini.....If Only Apple Lets It"
The Mac Mini is a well and truly brilliant product, as much so as the MacBook Air, in my opinion.
All the hallmarks of the genius of Jobs, under whose leadership the product was created.
And so it is a pity that the world's biggest IT company has given the Mac Mini's update so little priority lately.
With 98,000 employees, surely a few could get to work on a new Mac Mini?
In the meantime, it must be conceded, the existing Mac Mini remains fairly great...