Mac Mini Server mit altem OS X

Habe heute meinen NEUEN MacMini Server geholt und musste feststellen das noch kein 10.8 sowie die neue Server App drauf ist. Muss ich das jetzt den jetzt auch noch kaufen oder bekomme ich einen Upgrade Code und wenn ja wie?

Hi Endre,
1. Simply put, updates to say 10.8 are free, but Upgrades to say 10.9 are not... a bit cconfusing since 10.9 client was the 1st free upgrde Apple has done, but apparently doesn't go for the Server add-ons.
2. In my estimation, if you can start over with the 10.8 Install, I'd go that way, I see nothing really useful about 10.9 over 10.8
3.
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Hello MrHoffman,
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2539663&tstart=0
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graphics chip.
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Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store.
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Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
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Hi folks,
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1
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2
A Mac Mini Server 2.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo
Physically, the Mac Mini is the better option:
- much lighter in my hand luggage so I could take it in addition to my existing MacBook Pro.
- more USB ports
My worries with getting a Mac Mini are:
- Is it powerful enough or at least significantly better than my MacBook Pro?
- Will it run the latest version of Final Cut Studio (a little off-topic, I know but I couldn't seem to find any straight answers elsewhere).
- Is it noisy when under a heavy workload?
- There is no Superdrive so can I use my MacBook Pro to install the software DVDs across a network?
Thanks for reading this. Let me know what you think.
Kind regards,
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The mini will be about as powerful as your current MBP. You could have more RAM in the mini, 2 GB is certainly not enough for any serious work.
People on this list were initially(LP 9.0.0) underwhelmed by the MBP i7 dual core, it is a step up from your older MBP, but don't expect miracles. Get lots of RAM/a SSD for optimum performance.
9.1.3 may have improved performance, not sure,
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I recently purchased a 1Tb 4Gb Mac Mini Server, running Snow Leopard Server. I want to use it as a central repository for my other macs: storing music, movies, backup, screen sharing (it's hooked up to my 32-inch TV) but I also want to be able to run Logic Pro, Ableton Live, etc. I also have a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard Client, which contains all of my programs, plugins, data, etc. I realize that Snow Leopard Server does not have migration assistant, so I have tried to install a retail copy of Snow Leopard onto the secondary drive, but when it gets to the restart stage it crashes every time. I think this is a firmware issue, because the Mac Mini has a different hardware configuration to other macs. I do not have access to the mid-2010 Snow Leopard Client for Mac Mini which would allow me to install Client and use migration assistant from there. What I would like to know is:
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2/ Should I just wait for OSX Lion (July/August) which seems to be a combined server/client os, install that on both machines and run migration assistant from there?
3/ Is there another method I can use? Something I am overlooking?
Thanks in Advance.

Thanks for your reply. I talked to the Apple Support again and they told me the server edition could only be used on that OS and if I wanted to use it as something else I could chose not to use the server applications, or buy a regular Mac mini. And that was all they said. Interesting since it was one of their sales persons who told me I could install Snow Leopard.
Anyway, I got hold of a client disc and it all worked like a charm.

Windows 7 on mac mini server and raid 1

I just purchased a 2011 mac mini server with the hopes of installing windows 7 alongside lion. Then my goal was to have the two drives mirrored. I successfully mirrored the two drives using disk utility and then proceeded to install lion. This all went fine. Imagine my shock when I loaded up bootcamp to see an error message describing it's inability to install windows on a raided system. The thought hadn't even occured to me that this would be an issue.
I have searched through various forums and other places on the internet and haven't found a solution. I am curious if I can get anyone with any experience in this area. Is it possible to have mac and windows installed on a drive... and have that drive mirrored to the second drive... regardless of what os i'm booted into?
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The GUI version of Disk Utility is very limited in what sort of RAID configurations you can create. It will only allow you to have a single partition on the disk and to make a RAID using that.
Boot Camp requires creating additional partitions on the disk and hence it complaining.
There is a commandline version of Disk Utility called diskutility (duh!). It has far more options available. Details for this command can be obtained by typing man diskutility in Terminal.app.
It appears that in theory you might be able to do the following.
Start off with both disks not setup for RAID
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Then add the matching partition on the second drive to make it a working mirror using diskutil appleraid add
Then in Terminal.app manually create a RAID for the Windows partition using both drives and use FAT32 as the format using diskutil appleraid create
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