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Apple Mac mini MC408LL/A Snow Leopard Server | 
| Brand: Apple
Category: Personal Computer
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 1383
Media: Personal Computers
Operating System: Apple MacOS X Server 10.6
Processors: 1
System Bus Speed: 1066
System Memory: 4
Memory Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 1
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 8.8 x 6.9
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MC408LL/A
Model: MC408LL/A
UPC: 008859093709
EAN: 0008859093709
ASIN: B0013FTCPU
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| Features:
| • | 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor | | • | Dual 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drives, 4GB of Memory | | • | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Graphics, Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi3 and Bluetooth 2.1 | | • | Mini DVI to DVI Adapter, 5 USB 2.0 ports, 1 FireWire 800 port, Gigabit Ethernet | | • | Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard preinstalled |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
What is Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server? Exactly what you'd expect - a Mac mini specifically designed to be a server with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server preinstalled. Instead of a SuperDrive, there are two 500GB hard drives that give you all the power and storage you need to help your group work more efficiently than ever.
Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server is designed to help you communicate, collaborate, and share information. It's perfect for any small business or group - retail shops, doctor and law offices, classrooms, design studios - you name it. Now you can have your own server that supports email on Mac computers, PCs, and iPhone. Sync and share calendars and contact information. Access and swap files securely, and at lightning speed, between Mac computers and PCs. Easily create full-featured wikis and high-quality podcasts. And automatically back up all your important data. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB DDR3 Shared Video Memory Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet Audio - Built-in speaker, combined Optical Digital audio input/audio line in, combined optical digital audio output/headphone out Ports - 5 x USB 2.0, FireWire 800, mini-DVI output; VGA output (using Optional adapter); Mini DisplayPort Approximate Unit Dimensions - 2 (H) x 6.5 (W) x 6.5 (D) Approximate Unit Weight - 2.9 Pounds
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| Customer Reviews:
 I love this machine. Competent server for bargain price. July 2, 2010
Jim Gerdy (Chicago, IL)
I defer to Apple's documentation and second Brian Stucki's Amazon review of this great product. It fills a niche of providing a real server at a bargain price. (In fact I use Brian Stucki's '[...]t' service to host my mini.)
This machine may seem a bit pricey for a mini, but it easily services at a small business level for email and other standard services. I have been running mine for just under six months without a hitch. Some highlights for me are:
1. The low power profile of the mini
2. The dual drive. Although it lacks an optical drive it allows a RAID-1 configuration (the way I set up mine).
3. The Snow Leopard Server OS. This is the next evolution of Apple's powerful UNIX-based OS's and it is especially good for me since it has the best UI yet. I got mine setup with basic services for about a dozen users within an hour. It also still has the powerful command-line controls that server 10.3-10.5 had and it's all documented well in Apple's pdf on 10.6 Server.
Elegant is The Word - Near Flawless Execution June 2, 2010
Zzyzx Oh (USA, East Coast)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was pleasantly surprised at how much of the open source movement is embodied in the Apple Mac Mini Server and Mac OSX Snow leopard. But, really, nothing comes close to the integration that Apple has pulled off with the graphical interface and the solid UNIX underpinnings. At times, things seem a bit obfiscated, but you don't ahve to live with this very long to appreciate that Apple really earns the margins they pull down with these models.
Because I wanted the Snow Leopard Server operating system, I decided to do without the internal optical drive. My later purchase of a Samsung external DVD wasn't quite what I had hoped, so if I had it to do all over again I might have settled for the faster CPU and optical drive of the regular Mac Mini. But that might just be because I went cheap on the DVD drive, opting to save half the price by going outside the Apple brand.
The included documentation is sparse, so you'll be online reading hours and hours of eye-straining material if you don't buy a book like the Snow leopard Server Developer Reference. I'll review that later. Right now I'm having too much fun with the extra-cost Xcode development environment and relearning C, C++ and Cocoa Framework. This is really fun stuff. can you Gnu?
Now our house has mostly Linux boxes and a few fading Windows machines. The MAC OSX Server supports acting as a Windows Domain Controller so you can centralize control, and also acts as an Active Directory controller for your resident Macs. And, it took all of five minutes to get Time Machine to start backups to my network storage unit and reduce any concerns about losing files. Time Machine is very cool - you should read about that all by itself. Nifty interface to your backups.
So, why buy from Amazon? Well, my state has Apple stores, so I'd pay sales tax here even if I ordered from Apple. There was a special deal if you took a credit card from Amazon, so the discount was material. Of course, Apple offered the "free" printer deals, but I'll take the discount every time.
Nice product. Totally silent. Too bad the Firewire is reaching end-of-support And where is USB 3.0, you should ask.
Servers made easy(er) April 14, 2010
B. Fauska (Wisconsin)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This made the whole Server thing much easier and when I did have set-up questions. Apple was a great support.
Just what I was looking for! February 1, 2010
Rob (NYC)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Couldn't have been easier to set up! In very little time I had this little wonder serving media to the entire house. I hooked up a WD 4TB Firewire 800 drive locally and then connected it to my 6TB Network Attached Storage device. The Mac Mini Server acts as the central iTunes server, photo library, Time Machine backup repository, and file storage for the whole family. It also has enough CPU Power to encode and upload videos. I rarely hear the fan kick on and it is uses very little electricity which was a huge selling point! You can either drive two 24 inch LCD displays at 1900x1200 using both the mini-DVI and mini display port connections or just use Apple Remote Desktop to run it headless in a closet.
Lastly, the iChat server is pretty cool if you have lots of kids like I do. I could see it also working great for a small office.
I would purchase this again if I had it to do all over and would recommend this to any of my friends.
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