geirnoklebye

macxpress said:

Oh boy...here we go! Continuous bitching about the Mac mini. I doubt most here are gonna buy one anyways. 

Every time there is a discussion about the Mac Mini you come out like an idiot dissing everyone who says they have machines they want to replace, they have a requirement for better and faster processing and memory, or they actually want to buy a Mac Mini new system. 

You are only doing the community of Mac users a massive disservice both by pointing them to (often inferior) alternatives to Apple, but you are also doing Apple a disservice by encouraging their current or potential customers to go elsewhere. 

I am not sure strapping anything made by Facebook to your face is a good idea...

macxpress said:

geirnoklebye said:

It is actually sad that you guys have to write this kind of article. – That Apple no longer can offer their customers a good hardware solution supporting their own backup system. Do they even make a recommendation for how to store Time Machine backups any more?

I assume Apple would just like you to store things in iCloud (iCloud Documents, Photos, etc). 

iCloud can replace TM backups for certain types of documents provided you have the bandwidth for it. Large swats of the world don't have this as they never had cabled connections for their homes or locations, but rely almost entirely on mobile connections that usually are metered. 

Also iCloud cannot do full system backups and restore, and don't do versioning like a TM backup will do. 

It is actually sad that you guys have to write this kind of article. – That Apple no longer can offer their customers a good hardware solution supporting their own backup system. Do they even make a recommendation for how to store Time Machine backups any more?

One of the things a new form factor should support is the ability to be stacked and easily rack mounted in a blade-ish fashion with sufficient cooling (now it draws air from under with exhaust to the back).  We have seen all kinds of creative mounts for the existing one, but none of them are very density efficient. 

Config flexibility from i5, i7, i9 to at least one Xenon. 

Configs that don't come with much graphics power at one end, to at least medium level gaming performance at the other end.