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This also explains the recently announced Snow Leopard Server Tour. I think that is the long term goal of this release.

More people will be using it as the backend for the business, which will lead to faster adoption of iPhones and Macs for their employees.

That said, this new server will really speed the adoption of Snow Leopard Server. I think there is still a market for this as some uses don't require OS X Server.

#Optical drive for mac mini install#

Right now, about 70% of our customers stick with the standard install of OS X on their servers.

We're happy to welcome Apple in our corner. Of course, we've been preaching otherwise for years now. There's always that mouth-breathing basement dweller that assumes the size of the Mac mini disallows it from acting as a powerful server.

It is satisfying to get the official nod from Apple in using the Mac mini as a server.

We have a few thoughts on these new minis: Also included is Snow Leopard Server (usually $499) and 4GB of RAM. This machine omits the optical drive and instead offers two 500GB drives for a total of 1TB. The more exciting news from yesterday is the new Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server. These new minis already have this firmware applied. However, with that last Mac mini firmware upgrade, they will now support 8GB of RAM. The Mac minis are officially sold and supported to use 4GB of RAM. There is one thing to note that most people don't know. (see pictures of the last generation minis here) Inside, they are designed the exact same as the previous models, just with the upgraded processor and RAM.

We've already secured the new 2.26 and 2.53 Mac minis and taken them apart a couple hours after they were announced. So, here is the State of the Mac mini 2009 The one thing we missed was a black/aluminum color scheme.Īnd now, with new Mac minis upon us, we felt it appropriate to pen another piece. We even got the Dual HDD right, even though we had quite a few people disagree with us on that. We nailed the RAM, the GPU, the firewire, and the mini Displayport. Take a look and you'll see that it turned out to be quite accurate. The State of the Mac mini 2009 Unofficial, but probably quite accurateĪ year ago, we wrote The State of the Mac mini 2008.