#Mac mini as a server for business mac os x#

I even stripped the OS X software from it and installed the free operating system, Debian. When the first Mac Mini came out, I bought one – and promptly sat it under my wardrobe, unconnected to either monitor or keyboard.

I have to say that I think that this is one of the few times when Apple has followed what it has seen its customers do with its hardware, instead of dictating to them what they should be doing. What’s going on here? Why would someone buy a Mac that’s deliberately cheap and cut down, only to pay over the odds for an extra drive? And why would you pay to have OS X Server on it – an operating system that’s primarily engineered to run on Apple’s most expensive, souped-up server systems (which start at €2,900)?

#Mac mini as a server for business mac os x#

Oh, and a copy of “Mac OS X Server”, Apple’s less-known variant of its Mac OS X operating system. This week, though, it got a strangely souped-up brother: the Mac Mini server.įor a pricey €950, you get the same system, but with the usually vital DVD drive ripped out and a second 500GB hard-drive added in its place. When it was launched in 2005, the Mac Mini was originally pitched as a cheaper Apple model for those who already had keyboards and monitors from their errant, sinful years as PC users. Apple sells a headless (monitor and keyboard- less) Mac model called the Mac Mini.

WIRED:BURIED IN the news from Apple this week – a fancy mouse, an upgraded new desktop Mac – was a peculiar beast.