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Do any of you run Server versions of OS X on your personal computers?
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OS X Server is basicly an additional app that gets installed on top of OS X. The server basicly gives you a controll panel for diffrent server related services. My MacBook Pro from 2010 have this software installed and I use it for experimenting with websites inside my LAN. The only reason for installing the server software on a personal mac is for testing purpose.
http://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/
Only if you want one of the features server provides. For example, some people run server so they can backup multiple Macs over their local network to a Time Machine backup disk attached to the main, server Mac.
But no... if you don't need any of those features, it does not do anything extra for you.
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There's no need since its the same OS as mentioned. I was tempted to do this years ago, only to find out that I'm not getting anything different (other then some apps).