What to do with my PC?

[Poonaka]

Have a quad q6600 with a bunch of drives and 8GB ram. I'd like to turn it into a network time machine storage unit for my iMac and my wife's. Is there anything else mac related that I can use this machine for? Feels like a waste using a quad and 8GB for just network storage.

What OS would you recommend putting on there? I have licenses for Win7 and Win2008. I've seen some tutorials for ubuntu but had a lot of difficulty getting it setup on that machine.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I have an old PC running as a server for my Macs, using a Windows Server 2003 license. I plan on replacing this with a Mac OS Server soon when money allows, but right now, it is doing nothing but sharing printers, and providing a place for me to throw files.

 

[Poonaka]

Guess I'll slap 2008 on there. Anyone doing anything network related with itunes or iphoto?

 

[rhett7660]

Guess I'll slap 2008 on there. Anyone doing anything network related with itunes or iphoto?

I have both my iTunes library and my iPhoto library on a networked xp box. I was using a server 2003 license but I wanted to run iTunes on the server. Reason, to sync my apple tv to. I didn't want my other machines having iTunes running all the time. So I went back to xp.

I have both our machines accessing the iPhoto files and our iTunes library. Seems to work. The only hassle is if you add new music/movies you have to do a manual update on the other two machines. I had an applescript that did this for me, but it broke with SL. So I am trying to do another one.

Anything specific you are looking at?

 

[Poonaka]

I have both my iTunes library and my iPhoto library on a networked xp box. I was using a server 2003 license but I wanted to run iTunes on the server. Reason, to sync my apple tv to. I didn't want my other machines having iTunes running all the time. So I went back to xp.

I have both our machines accessing the iPhoto files and our iTunes library. Seems to work. The only hassle is if you add new music/movies you have to do a manual update on the other two machines. I had an applescript that did this for me, but it broke with SL. So I am trying to do another one.

Anything specific you are looking at?

Just trying to get a feel for what's possible. My wife and I each have our own iphoto and itunes library. It would be really nice to share them and have that available via an apple tv (yet to be purchased).

 

[Jason Beck]

Just trying to get a feel for what's possible. My wife and I each have our own iphoto and itunes library. It would be really nice to share them and have that available via an apple tv (yet to be purchased).

Just stick with OSX.

 

[Poonaka]

Just stick with OSX.

So your suggestion is a hackintosh?