Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Michael Maibaum]

On 25/05/07, Matt Johnston <pelorus at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 25 May 2007, at 12:16, Michael Maibaum wrote:
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> > 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.



Oh I agree. I'm not sure I'd kill Mac Pro sales, but I suppose they would
suffer in some areas (basically anything non-multi-cpu intensive I guess). I
could live without the 2 slots, I'd be happy if they made the mini with *1*
slot, some people would put a gpu you in, I'd probably put a eSATA card in.

I'm still debating some smallish box with Solaris on it for a fileserver....
though I'm sure I'll end up waiting to see if Apple's next cat brings ZFS
and (sooner?) a suitable box to the table.


Michael
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