if you own a mac mini and didn't replace the stock HDD with a SSD you have made a grave mistake
If you own a mac mini you have made a grave mistake.
>>54247344
>and didn't replace the stock HDD with a SSD
This part of your post was redundant
>>54247344
What exactly is the point of it? Isn't it about as powerful as rMBP?
HDDs fail easily.
Luckily they're easy to repair, webm related.
>>54247390
that is hilarious
>>54247360
/thread
>>54247390
Holy shit totally gonna try this thanks anon.
>>54247344
>If you own a mac you have made a grave mistake.
Fixed.
>>54247386
Servers.
People buy them to host OSX based servers, and before the Apple TV, Media centers.
>>54247390
Meming aside, does this work?
>>54247656
......................
>>54247656
maybe
>>54247656
>>54247656
Lobotomies work 99% of the time.
>>54247656
It does work with specialized hardware at service shops.
But that ain't a fucking DVD/Bluray/CD for it to work on one of those you retarded fuck.
>>54247656
sure thing buddy, as long as your dvd drive is magnetical
>>54247360
moot is an idiot
>>54247656
In case you were serious:
CD/DVD/BluRay uses lasers (light) to read physical bumps/indentations in the disc
Hard drive platters are smooth -- they use magnets to write to/read from the platter
>>54247691
>>54247722
>>54247768
>>54247825
>>54247845
You guys are the easiest people to bait I swear
>>54248011
>Implying lobotomies don't usually work
I was thinking of either a cute little macbook air 11 inch, or a mac mini and happy hacking keyboard. What would you get? I'm leaning towards to mac mini because 1000 dollars is a little steep.
>>54248438
I would get a real laptop.
>>54248438
What would you use it for?
The air is pretty horrible for anything but doing a little side coding on the go, or responding to emails. Screen and keyboard are terrible.
The Mac Mini is the opposite, it's a great device to have on your desk or in a cupboard, has a lot of expandability, and you are expected to use a good keyboard and monitor with it.
>>54247564
>>54247564
>>>54247386
>Servers.
>People buy them to host OSX based servers
For what purpose?
>>54248011
>I was only pretending to be retarded
good job
>>54248573
The company I'm interning at just installed one in a school to host a netboot server to deploy images to the 50+ MacBooks and iMacs over the network.
You need apple hardware to run the netboot server, and the Mac Mini is great because it's the perfect size for the server rack.
Mac minis are alright priced, even though it's basically a laptop. Probably going to get one if I ever have some spare cash to put in my lab. Would use for a server, working with swift, or running mac propriety applications
>>54248438
The 11" MBA is absolute dogshit tier, crappy keyboard, shitty screen, underpowered, etc. The 13" one is the complete opposite, try snatching an used one if you're so cheap.
My autism wouldn't allow me to get a Mac Mini without buying a Cinema Display so I've avoided them altogether.
>>54248573
I think the main thing was the warranty, for people who didn't want to deal (or pay for repairs) with hardware shit - you just call up apple and it's their problem.
Other servers in the same price range would generally be used shit or shit you cobbled together yourself, and then there's nobody to help you/pay for it if your disks shit themselves.
Pretty sure this was all before AWS/Glacier made this all irrelevant.
>>54248515
The screen isn't that bad and the key board has zero flex.
>>54247564
So, people pay for a FreeBSD server with a fancy gui that'll slow down resources and not even be used by sysadmin? end life plz
>>54247873
no surprise here
>>54247344
>not using an SSD and HDD
>>54247360
Basically. My biggest regret from buying an iOS dev computer was this. Even a MBA would be fine.
>>54247344
>if you own a mac mini and didn't replace the stock HDD with a SSD you have made a grave mistake
Here, fixed
if you own a mac mini you have made a grave mistake
>>54247656
neo /g/
>>54248438
i picked up a 2012 for $220 the other day. popped in a spare SSD and have 16gb cl9 so-dimms ordered. pretty rockin. serving as a side rig and backup mac to my mba
>>54247344
>2016
>dual-core only
kek
>>54248611
>Mac minis are alright priced, even though it's basically a laptop.
haven't realized this before, holy shit.
>go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini#Specifications_3
>hover over the cpu-names used in the recent macminis
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_%28microarchitecture%29#Mobile_processors
PFFFFFHAHA.
>>54247344
If you own any apple shit, you've made a mistake.
>>54249825
I don't know what you were expecting, have you seen how small it is?
>>54248573
OSX server is really nice if you have a lot of macs deployed
and if you have limited bandwidth the caching feature of updates and other things from the app store is amazing
>>54248741
Nice bait.
>>54250536
>Sent from my Xiaomi Redmi 2 running CurryModROM by Fuddpreet Singh with Thunder Kernel using Tapatalk
>>54250566
so? it's not that small because of the mobile cpu.
>>54247344
>>54247360
If you own a mac you have made a grave mistake.
>>54248515
As a main machine. 4chan, chinese cartoons, programming, maybe the odd match of league of legends (I don't really care if I need to use lower settings though). I've always liked OSX but never had the money for it. Will probably turn my aging desktop into a freebsd server.
>>54248438
Whatever you do
DONT get a macbook air
Apple hate aside, is mac mini worth it?
>>54257029
you're retarded. until the new 12" macbooks with the new chips come out, the airs are still the best ultra portables on the market. even then the lack of magsafe and diminished battery life of the macbooks leave something to be desired. MBA are barnone the best productivity machines on the market, especially among developers. 16h of battery life is untouchable for a machine it's size and price point
>>54257159
sure, considering they're fairly cheap now. compare to the cost of a mid tier intel nuc + m2 ssd + ram etc. and even then you're trapped using winblows instead of a real OS like OSX
>>54247360
Came into this thread to post this. Thanks for making this the first response though.
>>54258877
>real OS
>>54247344
>if you own a mac mini you have made a grave mistake
>>54248573
for xcode stuff i think
>>54247360
/thread
>>54247656
>/g/ - circa 2016
>>54248011
BUT HURR I WUZ ONLY PRETENDING TO BEE REETARDED HURR
>>54260754
>circa
>post literally has a timestamp
