Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Matt Johnston]

On 25 May 2007, at 12:16, Michael Maibaum wrote:

> Dual 10/100/1000 ethernet and/or eSATA and it'd be close to my  
> ideal home/SOHO server, especially if Leopard does bring ZFS to the  
> table.
>
> I'd only need one of the above built in, pref the dual NIC, then  
> the PCIe slot can go to a meaty eSATA board, otherwise I'd really  
> like 2 PCIe slots.
>

See, this isn't about cannibalising Mac Pro sales but about finding a  
niche. You'd kill Mac Pro sales with a dualNIC/eSATA machine at the  
price point I imagine you want.

So, there's compromise.

End of the day, is it really necessary to have dual NIC and eSATA in  
a home SOHO server?

No....not really. Especially if you have a single gigabit NIC, SATA  
and an empty PCIe slot in there. Otherwise you're building the  
iMichael's-Perfect-SOHO-Mac which is a terrible marketing name.



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