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Rumors of New Apple Hardware Tomorrow Swirling
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing! Very interesting, and new news too. Could be a cool solution to the press HP has gotten over their apple friendly windows home server machines. I'm on the list for two Mac Mini's but maybe a third Server Mini after the first of the year might not be too bad...
Magic Mouse cleans it's own ball I suppose.
As a fan of clean balls, that would be epic!
Yeah, I'd imagine they will surprise us with some new gadgets. The stock just topped $200 per share.
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I just can't conceptualize an OS X Server inside a Mini. It's an underpowered little trooper as it is, needs some serious hardware help before it should be allowed out on the big streets.
So I'm thinking this particular rumor is a red herring.
OTOH, if they could indeed cram in the hardware, an additional Ethernet port, a (much) better CPU, then Wow. It would be cool, to say the least.
woooo.... just remember, I proclaimed 20 October exactly one month ago:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/789957/
let's just see if I'm right
some of you guys are hating pretty hard in that thread. oh well. rumours are rumours. well, my guess is based on the printer rebate and windows 7 anyway.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/789957/
let's just see if I'm right
some of you guys are hating pretty hard in that thread. oh well. rumours are rumours. well, my guess is based on the printer rebate and windows 7 anyway.
The majority of small server operations don't need that much power. Plenty of people are using Pentium III towers for network file sharing. The Home Servers on the Windows side range from Atom to single core low power processors.
please no more plastic macbooks just slash the price on the MBA another $300-$400 and make that the consumer notebook.
Let's take a wait & see on that rumor, shall we. I mean week after week we get built up only to get let down come end of day. It would be nice. After all apple has nothing to lose by releasing a few new products or a major refresh.
Well, sure. I have some P4-class servers running various Linux.. and more dual and quad Xeon servers running Windows 2003/2008 Server.
It all depends on the workload you expect to handle. And how much downtime you can tolerate. Without things like redundant power supplies, network ports and the like, it'd fine (no, it'd be awesome) for an at-home or small network server. But for the enterprise? I have to say no, even while granting the fact that the enterprise isn't where this is aimed, in all likelihood.
check out this old thread, and some mockups i made
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6842351#post6842351
Hehe, would have been cuter if the links worked
Speaking as an idiot who paid >$2400 for one less than a year ago, I don't want this to happen.
And that's why enterprise situations have "enterprise" hardware.
Most of us can scrap together a spare tower to run some services for our home. My router works just fine with 200 MHz.
Of course for your more average consumer you're going to want something you can package.
Actually the new ones are quite a bit more powerful. I just ordered the new hp ex495 for about $499. It has a 2.5 c2d chip. 2gb of ram. 1.5tb hard drive and esata port multiplier. Plus has three extra sata bays for drives. And it's smaller than a mini tower.
check out this old thread, and some mockups i made
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6842351#post6842351
Steve's a big fan of symmetry, and doesn't like things being either left handed or right handed. So this particular layout seems unlikely, but I think the idea of having a multi touch trackpad input for desktops is an obvious next step for input devices. Maybe the trackpad will be at the bottom center like on laptops, or maybe it'll be attachable to either side of the keyboard, or maybe it'll be a completely detached input device existing on its own.
Not to mention that the Core 2 Duo is nearly as strong if not stronger than some of the G5 XServes from a few years back. I'd like to see a taller Mac Mini server with two 2.5" 500GB drives in a RAID 1, on top of a NewerTech MiniStack with a 2TB TM drive via FW800.
Port Novell's iFolder to OS X Server, and you've got a nice little server with remote HTTPS web access.
The E5200 is still budget processing. An OEM can probably get them for around $40-50 a pop.
The only cheaper desktop processor I'd consider would be a Sempron 140.
Time to compare some Geekbench charts?
I believe the N230 can manage a decent ~900.
I don't know who is buying the white macbooks tbh. It seems the market is slipping for them. Even schools (ie: Duke) has replaced their old macs with 13" unibodies and iMacs in the office.
The white macbooks are flying off the shelves around here. I've encountered at least 20 students at my college with new plastic mb's.
