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by veidr 4669 days ago
I am not the poster you are replying to, but one other reason I always choose Mac Pro is the ECC RAM.

This may be mostly superstition on my part, but the fact that it can correct when cosmic rays from outer space[1] flip arbitrary bits in my computers' RAM really satisfies me.

I have tried to use spare Mac Minis or notebooks as servers, too. Among my couple dozen Macs, nothing other than a Mac Pro has ever had a > 1 year uptime when really being used.

Don't really know that it's the ECC RAM, but I'm sticking with it.

[1]: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/rl/articles/ser-050323-talk-r...