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Small Home Business Network - What desktop should I get to have as a server.
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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1403457" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>If you want to use snow leopoard or Lion you need to have an Intel Core 2 Duo or better.</p><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html" target="_blank">Apple - OS X Lion - Technical specifications</a></p><p>So if you could find a core 2 duo then it should work. I don't know about hardware issues with the older Mac Minis. </p><p></p><p>The old G4/G5 processors had something with networking - and I don't remember what it was. Maybe it couldn't do the large frames for Gigabit Ethernet? Someone can correct me on that. Anyway - just so you'd have a longer lasting computer - find a core 2 duo at least.</p><p></p><p>You don't need server software - if all you want to do is make a file server. You can serve files off of any machine. You don't need Lion Server just to serve files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1403457, member: 145676"] If you want to use snow leopoard or Lion you need to have an Intel Core 2 Duo or better. [url=http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html]Apple - OS X Lion - Technical specifications[/url] So if you could find a core 2 duo then it should work. I don't know about hardware issues with the older Mac Minis. The old G4/G5 processors had something with networking - and I don't remember what it was. Maybe it couldn't do the large frames for Gigabit Ethernet? Someone can correct me on that. Anyway - just so you'd have a longer lasting computer - find a core 2 duo at least. You don't need server software - if all you want to do is make a file server. You can serve files off of any machine. You don't need Lion Server just to serve files. [/QUOTE]
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