Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server

Toe, The writes "Today Apple announced several new hardware offerings, including a new Mac mini, their (almost-literally) pint-sized desktop computer. In a bizarre twist, they are now also offering a Mac mini with Mac OS X Server bundled in, along with a two hard drives somehow stuffed into the tiny package. Undoubtedly, many in the IT community will scoff at the thought of calling such a device a 'server.' However, with the robust capabilities of Snow Leopard Server (a true, if highly GUI-fied, UNIX server), it seems likely to find a niche in small businesses and even enthusiasts' homes. The almost completely guided setup process means that people can set up relatively sophisticated services without the assistance of someone who actually knows what they are doing. What the results will be in terms of security, etc. will be... interesting to watch as they develop." El Reg has a good roundup article of the many announcements; the multi-touch Magic Mouse is right up there on the techno-lust-inspiration scale.

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Passive-aggressive mice

[argent]

Apple continues their damned war against mouse buttons.

I have two Macs, and both of them have Microsoft's low end optical mouse connected... the best product Microsoft have put their name on since Xenix. I tried using the Mighty Mouse, and I've tried getting used to the two-finger tap on my Macbook Pro, and they just don't work for me. For example, I hold my mouse in three fingers, with two fingers resting on the buttons. I press with my middle or index finger, to click. On the Mighty Mouse this results in it being interpreted as a left click no matter which one I apply pressure with. On this mouse... who knows?

Re:Passive-aggressive mice

[dingen]

Apple continues their damned war against mouse buttons.

As long as people remember who Steve Jobs is or was, Apple will not even think about putting more than one button on a mouse and rather leave that one button off as well.

Re:I can see plenty of uses for it.

[genericpenguin]

Uh, anyone with mod points to mod parent up? Or my sibling?

Re:Ouch!

[MojoStan]

And yet again, nothing headless in the mid-range

the idea of paying to replace your monitor every time Apple make your old product obsolete sounds a little absurd to me - I'm not interested in the iMacs.

I also dislike Apple's lack of choice in the mid-range (all-in-ones only), but the new 27-inch iMac lessens one major drawback a bit by adding a Mini DisplayPort input port. So that nice 27-inch display, which can have a longer useful life than the rest of the computer, can be re-used by another computer that can output a DisplayPort signal (DisplayPort outputs will probably be commonplace by then).

Note that converting from HDMI/DVI output to DisplayPort input requires a complicated adapter (unlike DisplayPort outputs).