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<blockquote data-quote="MacsWork" data-source="post: 642189" data-attributes="member: 11094"><p>Servers are,....for services. If you plan to provide services like backup, web, file and print, that can be easily accomplished with any old OS X client. If you want to provide DHCP, DNS, Netboot, central authentication and application services, than OS X server might be a good option.</p><p></p><p>As far as rendering,...just because you could is not my recommendation. Also rendering would most likely be slower. I find rendering on lower grade machines impacts the overall product as well. This is assuming that the new machine would be an older model.</p><p></p><p>If you're going to score another mac anyway, I'd suggest testing the rendering before committing that machine to any other tasks. What ever app you're using may also detect the server OS and say it can't be installed on OS X server.</p><p></p><p>I have a mish-mosh of machines doing various tasks in my home but my server is only a server.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacsWork, post: 642189, member: 11094"] Servers are,....for services. If you plan to provide services like backup, web, file and print, that can be easily accomplished with any old OS X client. If you want to provide DHCP, DNS, Netboot, central authentication and application services, than OS X server might be a good option. As far as rendering,...just because you could is not my recommendation. Also rendering would most likely be slower. I find rendering on lower grade machines impacts the overall product as well. This is assuming that the new machine would be an older model. If you're going to score another mac anyway, I'd suggest testing the rendering before committing that machine to any other tasks. What ever app you're using may also detect the server OS and say it can't be installed on OS X server. I have a mish-mosh of machines doing various tasks in my home but my server is only a server. [/QUOTE]
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