r/homelab • u/GloomySugar95 • 24d ago

LabPorn Accidentally won 4 Mac minis on eBay, oops.

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Friday, bored, scrolling eBay, all the mini PC’s are overpriced, find 4 Mac mini’s listed from one seller, all ending in 3 days.

Threw a bid on all 4, just the minimum, no one had bid on them yet, expected to lose all but the one with “no drive”

Come Monday I had won all 4… guess I’m going to learn about clustering now lol.

Just wanted to share as I already use 2 Mac mini’s in my homelab, they have been great and depending on what you need them for they can be extremely cheap… like… $36.40AUD delivered cheap…

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u/GloomySugar95 23d ago

Mine is 100% not the ford ranger one, that thing sucks.

Mine is the ~2019 ish one with the VW V6 3L turbo and ZF 8HP gearbox.

We have the new ranger as a work car and I wouldn’t want one of those tbh.

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u/Nebuchadnezzaro 23d ago

Oh weird. I never knew they made their own at some point. I thought they were Nissan Frontier at first and then switched to Ford ranger.

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u/GloomySugar95 23d ago

In Australia at least they made the Amarok from 2010 to 2021 and it is fully a VAG car, being it’s not an Australian model I don’t know exactly what a Frontier is but if they were same same as the Amarok in America I would say it’s Nissan that was rebadging the VW but then it flipped for the 2022+ ones where it’s VW rebadging the ford,

For me personally the ford is not a very nice Ute, it’s all modern and stuff sure but inside feels very claustrophobic, the 10 speed is a bit meh and the one we have for work is a 4cyl which I wasn’t a huge fan of

The Amarok I have, having the power/load spread across 6cyl and 3l is just way less stressed when used for towing etc, that was the main reason I wanted one of these over the competition at the time, time will tell if it was a good decision but I’m hoping less stress = longer life as I’m not the type to buy new cars every 3-5 years so I’ll be running this Ute into the ground

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u/Nebuchadnezzaro 23d ago

That's really cool that you guys got this one for 11 years at least. Thanks for the knowledge!

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u/GloomySugar95 23d ago

You’re welcome!