Why is the Mac Pro a bag of hurt? Just curious as I could never afford one (with the taxes here in Brazil the Mini already costs the equivalent of USD 1300, and that's only because it's at a discount price now. Before it used to be R$ 2500 which is... *opens calculator* 1560 USD!)
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i3 Mac Mini, 6GB Memory, USB 3.0
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Why is the Mac Pro a bag of hurt? Just curious as I could never afford one (with the taxes here in Brazil the Mini already costs the equivalent of USD 1300, and that's only because it's at a discount price now. Before it used to be R$ 2500 which is... *opens calculator* 1560 USD!)
I can live without USB 3.0, but Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge would be awesome. A minimum of 4GB is something obvious !
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I think 4GB has to happen on both the Mini and MacBook White, or else a price cut is in order.
Personally, I don't think 6GB will happen, especially on Apple's lowest priced computer, maybe the iMac? I also can't remember the last time that Apple did not use matched RAM sets (besides the PowerPC's with soldered RAM and one RAM slot)
Personally, I don't think 6GB will happen, especially on Apple's lowest priced computer, maybe the iMac? I also can't remember the last time that Apple did not use matched RAM sets (besides the PowerPC's with soldered RAM and one RAM slot)
no way if apple abandons firewire i cant buy apple computers any more in the future
Thunderbolt to firewire adapters...
TB to USB3 is the key here.. TB can convert to any if not all the High speed adapters... USB3, Sata3 and FW400,800 and im sure 1600 and 3200 when available.. but why would they invest in that when a direct TB connection would be 3X faster than FW3200...??
BTW.. I'm new on here..
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BTW.. I'm new on here..
Thx
I just hope they release a new Mini this year! When they release it, we would probably see Thunderbolt, 4GB Ram as standard and Intel HD graphics, and hopefully Sandy Bridge would be in it somewhere !!
The 2009 Mini came with either 1GB or 2GB of RAM. The 1GB model was a single module while the 2GB had a pair of 1GB modules.
I couldn't care less about synthetic benchmarks
I USE the computer, I don't play with benchmarks
In the review you kindly linked, I see the Photoshop benchmark going from 35,3 secs to 32,9 secs : I can wait 3 seconds more
Actually I can wait 3 minutes more, without the urge to upgrade my computer
For the normal user it's perfectly fine to skip the nerd-fest and benchmark numbers, as well as waiting an extra 3 seconds or minutes to finish a task.
Some people can't. And that 3 seconds or minutes adds up when you're talking about 1500 NEF/TIFF/CRW files over just a few. Or when you're talking about 10bit uncompressed 4:2:2 HD footage that needs to render out as H.264 and is two hours long.
By that time you are talking about saving 30 minutes to an hour or more . . . and that's just the stuff I find in the normalcy of the freelance world, not the high end production house type stuff.
True, but then you have those that don't want any new threads made ever on the other side of the fence.