Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #46592
From: Tony Romain <tonyr-aelist@trancedesigns.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Semi OT: Yet another mac mini render farm thread
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:00:54 -0800
To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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The resale aspect is a really great point…  macs do tend to hold their value longer than many systems.  And as you said, super easy to sell/ship on ebay (as opposed to the insane amount of work it took for me to sell ship out all my studio's old G5 towers….)  can't imagine getting less than $200-$300 per system  even several years down the road.  (last year sold an ANCIENT ibook for $150)










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From: Tim Sassoon <tsassoon@aol.com>
Reply-To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:24 PM
To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Semi OT: Yet another mac mini render farm thread

The power supplies are internal now. And the current design is much better than the old, which were quite good. Especially now with i7's and Thunderbolt. We use Minis for servers, they work great. Treat them like blades. At the two-year mark, still under AppleCare, put them on eBay, recover half the cost, and drop them into a USPS Medium Flat Rate box and send them anywhere. You don't even need to buy the server version anymore, since OS X Server is only $49. Or it was - just tried to find it on the Apple Store and failed.


Tim Sassoon
SFD
Santa Monica, CA
 
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