Well, or cheaper in some regions. Considering the RPi is sold with an extra fee in many places, while Mac mini is just an old outdated piece of hardware that cannot run its native OS any more. Unless you don’t care and use the outdated version. Most people with Macs have no idea Linux exists, and perhaps they aren’t aware Windows can be installed on those.
The last Intel mini from 2018 is still going for serious money because it’s the last one with upgradable RAM, albeit with soldered storage. The 2014 (which I have, running Debian as my home server) has upgradable storage, but soldered RAM.
Thanks for that, I wasn’t sure about the 2018 model. Why solder the SSD? And unsolder already soldered (in the previous generation) RAM?
Anyway, how’s the mini with Linux as a server for you? Is it good? I thought of getting one and put it into sleep for idling and perhaps waking it up upon access.
Dunno. Apple do what Apple do. Presumably there was a cost benefit to soldering/unsoldering components.
As for mine: it’s pretty solid. It’s a 2014/with a 3ghz i5 and 8gb of Ram, and honestly, the RAM will be the issue if I spin up much more.
It’s currently running
Immich
Grimmory
Mealie
Invidious
Jellyfin
Navidrome
Nextcloud
SearXNG
and constantly hovers around 6.5gb in active use.
That era of Macs were mid-SSD, so mine came with the option for a Fusion drive that wasn’t originally specced, so I bought an adapter and now it has / and /boot on a 250gb M.2 and /home on a 1tb SATA SSD. And a 2TB external HDD is where Nextcloud lives. Honestly, I almost never have any trouble with it. It falls over once every six weeks or so, but a quick reboot and its back up on rails again.
Well, or cheaper in some regions. Considering the RPi is sold with an extra fee in many places, while Mac mini is just an old outdated piece of hardware that cannot run its native OS any more. Unless you don’t care and use the outdated version. Most people with Macs have no idea Linux exists, and perhaps they aren’t aware Windows can be installed on those.
The last Intel mini from 2018 is still going for serious money because it’s the last one with upgradable RAM, albeit with soldered storage. The 2014 (which I have, running Debian as my home server) has upgradable storage, but soldered RAM.
Thanks for that, I wasn’t sure about the 2018 model. Why solder the SSD? And unsolder already soldered (in the previous generation) RAM?
Anyway, how’s the mini with Linux as a server for you? Is it good? I thought of getting one and put it into sleep for idling and perhaps waking it up upon access.
Dunno. Apple do what Apple do. Presumably there was a cost benefit to soldering/unsoldering components.
As for mine: it’s pretty solid. It’s a 2014/with a 3ghz i5 and 8gb of Ram, and honestly, the RAM will be the issue if I spin up much more.
It’s currently running
and constantly hovers around 6.5gb in active use.
That era of Macs were mid-SSD, so mine came with the option for a Fusion drive that wasn’t originally specced, so I bought an adapter and now it has / and /boot on a 250gb M.2 and /home on a 1tb SATA SSD. And a 2TB external HDD is where Nextcloud lives. Honestly, I almost never have any trouble with it. It falls over once every six weeks or so, but a quick reboot and its back up on rails again.