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'cause that's the way of the world with every manufacturer under the sun. if it DID have 4bg socketed memory it would be 2x2GB. You surely KNOW what memory you need when you buy it - why do you suddenly need more later except for when a machine gets re-purposed like mine ? certainly OSX upgrades never need it. I have 3 mac minis - my very first one (core duo), needed more memory (and I actually stuck a new CPU in it too) when it's role changed (from web surfer to media centre in my house), the rest I just bought with sufficient memory. Now, ok it means you have to decide at the start and pay 'apple tax' on it (which is no different from the 'dell tax' or the 'hp tax'.Д«ut it's hardly a deal breaker.

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As the 1.4 GHz one only costs 400 quid in the first place, you're probably ahead vs a home made PC within two years.ДЎ/2 of that article was moaning about fixed memory FFS. Over the course of a year that's a difference of 600 kWh, or about 100 quid less electricity for the Mini. My home made PCs use around 75W sitting idle. These new ones also use *6* Watts when sitting idle (), which is what most home servers do most of the time. However, the iMac is very small unobtrusive and quiet.

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My current (i7 4790k) and previous (i7 860) OS X work machines have been home build Hackintoshes using the fastest chip available - and then overclocking it - at a fraction of Mac Pro (or even iMac) price. I'm sympathetic to the argument that you can build a PC cheaper. (and have a 35W TDP rather than 28W, but that shouldn't be a show stopper). The quad core chips at the moment use socket BGA-1224.

In order to sell a quad core machine Apple would have to use a different motherboard, which isn't really sensible for what would no doubt be a low volume machine, even as Minis go. If you check the aforementioned I5-4260U, I5-4278U, I5-4308U, I7-4578U CPUs you'll find they all use the BGA-1168 socket and the I7-4578U is the newest and highest spec'd chip for that socket. However I don't think it was Apple's choice to make :( Yes, it's very sad that there is no quad core option now. Regarding the new model though, it says something when releasing a new model sends prices for the old one through the roof. With recent developments, I'd go with Linux over OSX for gaming too. It's horrifically slow, especially over the network, even gigabit. If you have specific server-type stuff, BSD could be more stable there. Debian (not my favourite distro), on the other hand, works fine. KDE took around 14 hours to compile and then it failed. You can do the others, but its just harder, especially if you have to compile the stuff on ageing hardware. If you want a *nix-like OS for the desktop, I'd go with linux. There's no FLOSS ISCSI for OSX either as far as I can tell.

I think mostly the problem is that so few people use OSX for server tasks, things aren't well tested. I rsync'ed the same content to a linux and shared out over NFS and it was so fast I thought it had failed. It didn't go well with (I think) samba on OSX falling over a lot. I tried sharing out an iTunes directory over samba and getting Amarok to suck it in. OSX just makes things hard, like trying to do NFS.

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In the new Mac Mini I'm still able to upgrade the HD to an SSD quite easily, but the CPU speed is still 60% of the previous model.ДЄnd there was me thinking OSX was built on MACH. I can't have been the only person who was doing this because of the stupidly high costs of the Mac Pro.ДЄpples response is to do away with the quad core edition, reduce it to a 2 core range and remove the RAM upgrade option. It was irrelevant to me that I'm invalidating the warranty, because of the savings I've made by doing this for an entire floor. This came in under half the cost of the lowest spec Mac Pro, and out performed it.

And replacing the 4GB ram with 16, and the internal 5400rpm hard disk with a 1TB ssd. I was buying Mac Mini quad cores up until last week. The real reason for this crippled machine is the current Mac Mini was a threat to the new Mac Pro black-circular-ash-tray edition.

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They will however let existing and future Mac owners buy the server software for $15 They no longer market it as a server machine. Re: To think Apple once marketed the Mini as a server machine (do they still do that)?

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