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Maybe a lot of people are using these as media machines? That requires a lot of space, and not much speed.
by blhack 12y ago
Maybe a lot of people are using these as media machines? That requires a lot of space, and not much speed.
- kissickas 12y agoAnother popular use case is as a server.
- ochoseis 12y agoAnyone have experience trying to colo one of these? The $/GB and Ghz aren't bad when you depreciate the upfront cost of the mini over a few years. I've seen hosting in the $35-50 range and nearly bitten the bullet several times because they'll let you run CentOS/VMware/etc and would thus make for great project boxes. The fact that the newer models lack a quad-core option is making me flirt with the idea again to get that horsepower while I still can. For example, I haven't seen actual specs on the 2014 model's i7, but I would suspect it's similar to the i7-4578U Haswell in recent 13" Macbook Pro's[1] which have a CPU Mark score of 5204 [2]. This seems like a step back compared to the 2012 i7-3615QM's score of 7344 [3]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specifications_3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specifica... [2] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4578U+%40+3.00GHz&id=2345 http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4578U+... [3] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-3615QM+%40+2.30GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-3615QM...
- rm445 12y agoThen why not the current p/GB sweet spot, a 3TB disk?
- cherry_su 12y agoThere are no 2.5" 3TB drives, and even if one existed, it would be 12.5mm (or more), which may be too thick for Mac mini (standard 2.5" drive thickness is 9.5mm).
- Tiksi 12y agoBut there are 2TB 9.5mm drives, which would still be far better than a 500GB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178627 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178...