And there’s even more upgrades you can do. You can easily replace the existing hard drive and bump up the RAM. Sadly, the CPU is soldered to the motherboard and not user-upgradeable.
But that’s OK. You can still seriously soup up that $US600 Mac mini at a fraction of the cost of the $US1000 server model. [iFixit]
Your Mate Alex
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:21 PMFor the last year or 2, I’ve had a core2duo mac mini acting as my media center/home server/NAS (USB HDD). It runs Windows 7 (of course).
I checked out your PC alternative to the mac mini, the little dell thing, but the spec is crap. An i7 mac mini running Windows 7 (of course) is the perfect baby home server for me to run some VM’s….. EXCEPT WHO’S THE DICKHEAD WHO DECIDED NO USB3.0??? I’d have one on order already but useless without USB 3.0.
Paddy
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:36 PMMy mac mini just arrived! Thanks Apple. Weird that there’s no discs, though. Slightly unsettling!
Chris
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:36 PMWell yeah of course there is room. You can get a dual drive version and a drive and SSD version so it’s a non story.
Adam
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:46 PMThe server model is a quad core, that’s why its more expensive.
Big Windows
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 3:29 PMActually it’s an Apple… Thats why its more expensive and its in Australia… Thats why its even more expensive
Adam
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 3:52 PMFor sure, I’m in no way a fan of Apple’s pricing or the way they do bussiness. But putting a rediculus ammount of RAM in the cheap model won’t make it run aswell as the server model.
Big Windows
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 4:30 PMToo true… and to be honest… If I could get a decent spec machine jammed in to that small a case… With very few heating issues… I would take it… What we need to see now is an AppleBolt BluRay external disk… As a cherry on the top… In fact… Because of the pricing… Lets try and get it thrown in for free?