Our new Mac Mini arrived Monday! However, the internal hard drive was puny (160 GB) for our purposes so I had permission to purchase a new, larger one (500 GB) which was a mere $90.
With some major help from Jeremy (again) because he has more experience taking Minis apart and defter hands, this happened easily. The Intel-based Minis also use SATA-based hard drives, not PATA which lowers the margin of error on connecting them. Now the new Snow Leopard server has been installed yet I didn’t set it up. I will be taking down the old host to back it up and then attempting a migration to see how well it goes, probably over the weekend.
So this is not a Halloween prank, just an awful coincidence.
Wish us luck.
As for the old (G4-based) Mini, it has a new home lined up with a little girl who needs a computer.