You try telling any small business or any business that they should get a Mac mini for their server. They'll laugh in your face. Take this from someone who visits numerous small businesses and regional operations in a month.
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Mac Mini Mid 2010 Teardown Photos
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You try telling any small business or any business that they should get a Mac mini for their server. They'll laugh in your face. Take this from someone who visits numerous small businesses and regional operations in a month.
Nice looking machine, it would be great as a HTPC if you could option it with a blu-ray drive.
My major grip is the price. If you try to option it up to similar specs as an imac, its barely 120 AUD cheaper.
My major grip is the price. If you try to option it up to similar specs as an imac, its barely 120 AUD cheaper.
Wish they made the regular mini's HD as easy to get to as the Mini server's first HD, oh well. Still seems easier then the older models.
I think I could point you to nearly 1000 businesses that would disagree with you.
The important thing to remember is that there is a difference between what they need and what they think they need. I can assure you of one thing, Apple wouldn't be selling it if there wasn't a market for it.
I still don't get how difficult is to take out the HDD.
It looks stupid-easy on the server version in macminicolo teardown. (I'm talking about the FIRST hdd you meet, the "bottomest" one). No pulling out the logic board.
So why these comments:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10154236/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10155321/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10155896/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10174367/
"...the hardest of any Mac, that I'm sure of. "
???
Maybe in the non-server version you can't do the "bending the HDD out of the circle" trick (showed by macminicolo teardown) and you have to pull the whole board out? Seems unlikely....they (the only HDD in the non-server and the "bottomest" HDD in the server) look pretty much in the same place...
It looks stupid-easy on the server version in macminicolo teardown. (I'm talking about the FIRST hdd you meet, the "bottomest" one). No pulling out the logic board.
So why these comments:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10154236/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10155321/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10155896/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10174367/
"...the hardest of any Mac, that I'm sure of. "
???
Maybe in the non-server version you can't do the "bending the HDD out of the circle" trick (showed by macminicolo teardown) and you have to pull the whole board out? Seems unlikely....they (the only HDD in the non-server and the "bottomest" HDD in the server) look pretty much in the same place...
It's a darn shame Apple hasn't adopted eSATA. An eSATA/USB combo port would make it much more attractive given the relative difficulty of replacing the internal HDD(s).
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I'll be going with this over an iMac around Christmas. It's the perfect middle-ground between garbage PCs and higher end iMacs. I'm oddly ok with the extra $100. It's justified in the specs.
Mac mini server
Depends upon how small the enterprise is and what it plans on serving. I have authored several database products that ran on much less powerful equipment. Ideally, a company would prefer something with hot-swappable redundant components but there are some Mac mini colocation Web hosting services that may smile at the new specs.
Depends upon how small the enterprise is and what it plans on serving. I have authored several database products that ran on much less powerful equipment. Ideally, a company would prefer something with hot-swappable redundant components but there are some Mac mini colocation Web hosting services that may smile at the new specs.
...Like I said.
AirPort Extreme 6.5" square
Thanks. I stand corrected. (Must have looked up one of the other product specs twice.)
Thanks. I stand corrected. (Must have looked up one of the other product specs twice
.)Honestly, I think when they practiced the iPhone part of the keynote, it ran two hours and they didn't want to take anything out and they didn't want it to go longer than a typical movie length so people would watch the entire keynote on-line.
My take is that the new Mac Mini was all ready for WWDC. There are a bunch of slides about this new Mac Mini that were projected over Steve Job's head a week before MacWorld that will never see the light of day. Would not be surprised if it was Steve's call himself to delay the new Mac Mini launch til after WWDC.
I bet this is why they are planning to split WWDC into a two week long event with a "Mac week" and an "iPhone week" and a hell of a bunch of weekend parties in between the two weeks.
Users still aren't going to care. It's still WAY overpriced and lousy performance. And most people don't care how big it is, they'd just rather have a decent affordable mac.
Nice to see the improvements, but with the price increase and still crappy specs, the nice design just makes it suck a teeny bit less.
Nice to see the improvements, but with the price increase and still crappy specs, the nice design just makes it suck a teeny bit less.
Black square under the guys hand... aka, his fingers are resting on the HD. So it is covered by the other panel under the 2nd cover with the screws.
That's a relief then. I may finally get a mac mini and use it as an HTPC. The only thing I was worried about was the RAM. But if it's easy to access then no problem.
MacFixIt teardown reveals hard drive
- The Mac Mini comes with either a 320GB or 500GB SATA hard drive.
- Sadly, there's only one hard drive in our non-server model.
- Need more storage? Only time will tell if this Mac Mini is as easily modified as it predecessor. For now, we recommend just getting the server edition.
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This is what I understand from macminicolo teardown:
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It's a bit "how the hell did they do that", but maybe they "slided" it out OVER the ram modules and then started the rotation....