Timeline for why was my question about mac mini servers closed?
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| Nov 23, 2010 at 22:08 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | We have a Mac Mini in our datacenter right now. It's acting as an off-campus DNS for a peer .edu institution. It certainly caused a lot of head-scratching on our part, especially since they're a bit larger than us and we wouldn't touch a Mini. But it does the job. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 14:23 | comment | added | Zypher Mod | @gWaldo actually the Dell e series of notebooks have better specs than the mac mini. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 13:33 | comment | added | gWaldo | @zypher - Have you looked at the laptops that most enterprises issue to their employees? Calling them "Low End" is an insult to the low end. They're closer to oversized netbooks, most of the time... (Compaq/HP, and sometimes Dell, I'm looking at you...) | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 23:31 | comment | added | Zoredache | If you disagree with me I guess that is fine. But, it really bugs me when moderator casts the relocate-vote first. If a couple other users had voted to move, I suspect I would just accepted that the community had decided. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 20:19 | comment | added | Zypher Mod | @Zoredache ... well lets not get carried away ... I said low end desktop and laptop hardware i don't consider professional. I would say it has to do with both the hardware and the person. Also Jeff went from hosted dedicated servers to buying lenovo servers so ... no building there either. I mean for the ~1k a mac mini "server" + OS X Server costs you can get a real server machine from dell or HP. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | Zoredache | By your definition of professional I wouldn't call custom built-equipment server either. Which would seem to exclude many of Jeff's initial hardware choices and questions for this site. The comment about being a professional is about the person, not the tools. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 19:51 | comment | added | Zypher Mod | @Zoredache I'm sorry but a mac mini is a low end piece of desktop hardware. Just because it is adequate for a job doesn't mean that it's professional. Would you call a laptop i had sitting around a "professional server" ? because that's what a mac mini is on it's insides, a laptop in a pretty case without a monitor. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 19:42 | comment | added | Zoredache | I strongly disagree with your bias against a particular type of hardware. Perhaps you have(had) the nice advantage of supporting huge installations, but a mac mini can be argued to be adequate hardware for a small office, for satellite office, or for performing some less-critical secondary role. | |
| Nov 19, 2010 at 4:42 | comment | added | Mark Henderson | @pale - you'll notice that that question was answered by the same person who asked it. Also, it might have just slipped through the cracks as the clsoe votes do fall off after a while. I agree with Zypher on this one. | |
| Nov 18, 2010 at 22:56 | comment | added | paleozogt | Ahem: serverfault.com/questions/147019/… | |
| Nov 18, 2010 at 22:12 | history | answered | ZypherMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |