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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 Apple updates Mac mini, adds £799 server configuration

Minis start from £499 for the 160GB model, rising to £799 for the 500GB Server model

Jason Snell Macworld.com

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Apple on Tuesday announced an update to the Mac mini line of small all-in-one desktop Mac systems, adding faster processors, doubling memory capacity, and introducing a new server configuration that trades an optical drive for more storage.

The new £499 configuration features a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of 1066Mhz RAM, and a 160GB hard drive.

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The new £649 configuration features a 2.56GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 320GB drive. Both are powered by NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics circuitry.

The new £799 Mac Mini server configuration has no optical drive; in its place is a second internal hard drive. The server configuration is powered by a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and features 4GB of RAM and two 500 GB drives for a total of one terabyte of storage.

It comes with the Snow Leopard edition of Mac OS X Server preinstalled.

Before this update, most recent update to the Mac mini was in March 2009. That model was powered by a 2.0GHz processor and came in 120GB and 320GB respectively.

The original Mac mini model was introduced in 2005.

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Tenko said on Tue, 20 Oct 2009

That'll heat up nicely!!!

simjue92 said on Tue, 20 Oct 2009

Hmm, i have been experimenting with a mini running osx server with mixed success as i dont have a fixed ip at home so a mixed bag using a no-ip account. resorted to snow leopard and an external HD for movie sharing round the home using itunes as a server and especialy no there is a "home sharing" facility in v9. Looking to use SL server at work so this could prove quite exciting.

Peter said on Tue, 20 Oct 2009

I know a lot of people who use Mac Minis as media servers. The new mini server will add a lot of happy faces for that market.

Big Steve said on Wed, 21 Oct 2009

Not an entirely new idea. I've been using my Mac mini as a server for about a year now:

www.threelionstech.com/blog/index.php/32

Andrew said on Wed, 21 Oct 2009

No Hardware RAID though... unless you can setup software RAID out of the box then this surely isn't viable as a server

Showbizjohn said on Wed, 21 Oct 2009

@simjue92
Take a look at www.dyndns.com This lets you point a domain name at a dynamic IP address.

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