Anyone 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 ho

Anyone 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...