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1. #MAC MINI AS A MEDIA SERVER FOR APPLE TV INSTALL#
2. #MAC MINI AS A MEDIA SERVER FOR APPLE TV TV#
3. #MAC MINI AS A MEDIA SERVER FOR APPLE TV MAC#

There’s also a $799 model that bumps the processor up to a 2.5GHz Core i5 and adds in a discrete AMD Radeon HD 6630M GPU, and a new server configuration with dual 500GB drives and a 2GHz quad-core Core i7 for $999. Well, thank heavens for processor bumps, because that’s all gone away: the new base Mini features a 2.3GHz dual-core Core i5 and a newly-lowered $599 base price. The only problem was that the mini has traditionally offered fairly poor performance for the money: although it was given a strikingly beautiful case refresh last year, the internals were left to stagnate with a 2008-vintage Core 2 Duo processor, and the base price went up to $699. People love the damn thing - it’s one of the smallest and most power-efficient compact PCs available.

(Quick: where are the minis located in your local Apple store?) No matter: we’ve seen minis used as everything from high-load-bearing servers to HTPCs to just plain old desktop machines.

#MAC MINI AS A MEDIA SERVER FOR APPLE TV MAC#

If you don’t have the room, but do have the small budget necessary, adding a second, ultra-cheap ‘n’ used Mini by the teevee as your Plex endpoint is also a nice option.The Mac mini has long been the lovably lost scamp of the the Mac family, produced and sold with as seemingly little fanfare as possible. No transcoding ever necessary, so better PQ playback, and even a better Plex client than the AppleTV offers. – Finally, if you have room for your Mini and drives in HDMI proximity to your teevee, using the Mini as both server and *endpoint* for Plex is a kickass option. You can actually go back as far as the *Early 2009* Mini when modern GPU’s capable of handling 1080 video without involving the CPU were introduced and do just fine with Plex serving and other server-esque functions. With external drives, worrying about the internal HD, RAM, and modern ports are all overkill. Spend as little as possible, on either a used Mini, or a new Mini. – Kudos in noting older Mini’s are quite up to the job of both transcoding and other headless server-esque functions. Could’ve used a paragraph in the Macworld piece, IMHO. This makes the Mini *incredibly* cost-effective if you’re also using Plex.

It’s a *far* more reliable and flexible solution than any Time Capsule, NAS, or whatever. – As you note here, a big advantage of a headless Mini on the LAN is the ability to also host backups and general file serving. Read the rest of the article on Macworld. You can, of course, use that Mac mini for other things, such as using it as a file server, or for Time Machine backups. In this article, I’m going to tell you how you can set up a Mac mini as a dedicated Plex server. (If you do have a lot of videos that need transcoding, a NAS might not be a good fit for Plex.) Plex doesn’t need a lot of horsepower to manage and stream your media, unless it transcodes video. The Mac mini is a perfect candidate for this. If you have a large media collection, you may want to use a Mac as a dedicated device to run Plex.

#MAC MINI AS A MEDIA SERVER FOR APPLE TV TV#

It’s advantageous that Plex’s server be always on, so you can start watching your movies and TV shows without having to boot your Mac. (Heck, you could even set it up on a Raspberry Pi.)

#MAC MINI AS A MEDIA SERVER FOR APPLE TV INSTALL#

You can install the Plex server software on a variety of devices: your Mac, a PC, a NAS (network attached storage device), and more. With the arrival of the fourth-generation Apple TV, I found myself trying out the Plex media server, and I realized that using Plex is one of the best ways to watch media on the Apple TV.