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The price seems pretty good. I don't really know much about mini PCs. Do you think there is a better alternative?

Update: ok, not price efficient. Noted 👍

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[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

HP/Lenovo/Dell workstation tiny/mini/micro will be cheaper and better supported. Price-wise, I've set up 4-5 reasonably powerful t/m/m machines for the cost of my M2 Mac mini.

Which is nice for some of the development work I do, but for a server I personally won't use anything other than Linux, and I wouldn't recommend anything else either. Apple adds some funkiness that can be a complete pain (IMO) with some tools, Linux is the only server solution worth using.

So if you want a Mac, go for it, but if you want a server as the most important part, I'd say get an x86 based bit of hardware.

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