Appropriate for 3 PCs and 2 Macs?

I have 6 computers to deal with -- 1 MacBook Pro, 1 Mac Mini, 3 desktop PCs and 1 PC Laptop. The macs are both running Snow Leopard, and the PCs are Windows 7. I need a server to manage all my backups, and have been so happy with my Mac Mini that I am strongly considering getting the 2010 Mac Mini Server.
I've been working with computers for 30 years, but am toally new to server software, so I have some BIG questions:
1. Would the Mac Mini Server be appropriate for my needs? Windows server is a work in progress, and I'm not encouraged by what I hear. All I really want is ONE machine that can receive my Time Machine backups, and can hold my backups from the Windows machines. NOTE: My main machines are both PCs.
2. Does Mac X Server has specific software for backing up and restoring Win 7 PCs? If not, does 3rd party software like Acronis play nice with it?
3. Would I be better off using an NAS server like the Synology DS210+?

Thanks, I'll check out that software -- looks promising and they have a free trial period. I'm really unclear as to what Mac Mini Server provides that the plain Snow Leopard Mac Mini does not.

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I want to use Adobe Premier CS5.5 and it's Mercury Playback engine. What Nvidia CUDA-enabled card should I get for the 27" iMac and the Mac Pro to use this feature in Premier CS5?

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It's been a busy night trying and retrying your advice. I took a long break and I just got back off the phone with tech support.
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to manage my iphone and that of my wife.
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to manage my iphone and that of my wife.
Our set up is that we share music that is on my imac under my apple store id. We also like to have all of our photos in iphoto on that imac.
She has her own macbook and I'd like to use icloud to sink her personal bookmarks, calendar and other stuff.
I've thought about seeing if I could set her phone up to sync with icloud as appropriate, turn on wireless sync on her imac for syncing everything but music, then sync that same iphone on the imact but just sync music.
I've tried to point her macbook to my imac itunes library and that doesn't seem to be working very well.
The other wrinkle is that she is taking photos on her iphone that I'd like to show up in our shared iphoto library and photo stream. Currently we have our individual icloud apple ids so we may sync our own bookmarks and such and we use a separate "store" id for music and apps and such. I'm not sure I see a way for me to merge iphotos into a shared library/stream?
1. Any thoughts on the best way to manage two iphones, each with their own computer, but a shared music library?
2. Any thoughts on the best way to merge iphoto?
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I have recently downloaded the latest ICC profiles for the R1800 directly from Epson to my Mac. There are three of them and for arguments sake they cover the paper type I want "Premium Glossy Photo Paper"
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I suspect that some R1800 users have perhaps not tackled the issue of dark prints and may not be feel that they have an issue at all. I also believe that this particular issue only involves Intel Mac's which may not apply to some.
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I have hundreds (more likely thousands) of pictures I have scanned from old negatives and old prints (don't be surprised, as I am old and retired). My oldest photograph is an 1882 print of my grandfather milking a cow with my mother's comment in her scrapbook: "Dad can milk a cow!" Not surprising, as his parents had a farm, though my mother knew him as the owner of a small town hotel. I've a negative from about 1912 which I successfully scanned.
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I have also converted my initial 16 bit uncompressed TIFFs from the scanners to DNG, saving a fair amount of space (~30%). Some would argue this is totally unnecessary as you could compress the TIFFs instead, but I find the conversion to DNG within LR very easy to carry out, and I also find it gives better (lossless) compression especially on the somewhat grainy 16 bit scans. Once I'm happy with all the color and tone curve adjustments I'll probably produce 8 bit LZW Tiffs to archive and maybe discard the still huge 16 bit DNGs (depending on the cost of storage at that time).
I think Lightroom is also very good for the task due to the integrated nature of the DAM and Develop tools - it doesn't force you into a fixed sequence of working (such as having to do developing before cataloging and other metadata operations or vice versa).
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