I don’t get the idea. There’s no real need to have a real server, just buy a cheap ducking pc, connect sata drives there, set some shared folder or whatever you

I don’t get the idea. There’s no real need to have a real server, just buy a cheap ducking pc, connect sata drives there, set some shared folder or whatever you want there and that’s it. I assume the owner is all-in Apple fanboi. I worked with a similar 50-60 y.o. business owner, he was (and still is) under the impression that Apple is not just the best, but the competitors are shit. Funnily enough, everyone else at the company has Windows laptops (not very cheap ones, though). They have an old (also about 50, maybe 45 to 55) IT admin guy, who doesn’t get the Mac thing, like at all. And me, I was their website contractor, who also (was) all-in Apple at the time. The boss kept asking me time and again whether the Apple is the best, to which I always replied positively. Over time, I started mentioning that for most cases Apple is very good, but not for each one. So he won’t be under the impression that non-Apple means bad. I hope that helped their tech guy. Also, when I visit them now (very infrequently), I am on Android and Linux, to which boss doesn’t understand. I keep telling him that in some cases Apple is very limiting and that for my web work it’s easier to do my work that way. Which is truth, for me at least. Also, I remembered something. The boss has a full-blown iPad Pro 12.9 with keyboard case. He never takes it with him, so it’s his office computer. He uses it for email and browser. His illusions that iPad is the future keep him from buying at least an iMac, which would be better from any angle. Even the battery thing, as they have powerful generators on site, in case of power outages. Since he travels with his luxury car, I think he doesn’t really need an iPad on the go anyway (could use his latest iPhone). So this iPad-but-not-an-iMac thing is the perfect illustration for me. Not to say he could use a second-hand £10 used PC with Linux installed. Which I use on one of my work locations (so I won’t need to bring my MacBook) with a couple of cheap second hand displays. My setup is like under 50 bucks, and is much better than his from every angle. Maybe just the screen quality is worse due to me taking the cheap displays, but I don’t need too much of a good screen there anyway. But the screen real estate is like 3 to 4 times more.