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Mar 27, 2013
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Decide buy a new mac mini replace my macbookpro (late2008)
I mainly use for photo editing ,art work and some simple video editing.
Here with NovaBench Score for all 3 machine ,hope this may help some people who want to move on the next step.

I order from apple and upgrade to i7 2.6 + fusion drive only.
16g ram i take Kingston KTA MB1600 8g x2(self install)
The mini make me feel good and fast especially on photoshop CS6, for example when i open a photoshop it take:
2'10" in my macbookpro
14" in my PC
2" in my MAC mini. In fact less than 2 sceond (even i opening 4 page browers and one internet radio playing muisc + downloading something at the same time)
You can see big difference even faster than my PC with i5cpu,i thought pc is fast enough for me than macbookpro .But now i'm a surprise of this mini guy.

About the HDMI out didn't work with my Philips monitor even i upgrade the OS 10.8.3 , now i use the thunderbolt plug for it.

I'm not a engineer of computer , not sure how many % of effort what fusion drive offer this result , but most of work its fit for me going smooth than before , of course except gaming. :)



PC Total score 1398****************
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel Core i52400 3.10GHz @ 3101 MHz
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

16324 MB System RAM (Score 237)
- RAM Speed 12091 MBs

CPU Tests (Score 443)
- Floating Point OperationsSecond 102446636
- Integer OperationsSecond 383024316
- MD5 Hashes GeneratedSecond 1071174

Graphics Tests (Score 685)
- 3D Frames Per Second 1834

Hardware Tests (Score 33)
- Primary Partition Capacity 248 GB
- Drive Write Speed 143 MBs


MAC MINI Total score 1155**************
Mac OS X 10.8.3
Intel Core i7 @ 2600 MHz
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 4000

16384 MB System RAM (Score: 223)
- RAM Speed: 9190 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 820)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 333982912
- Integer Operations/Second: 627156224
- MD5 Hashes Calculated/Second: 1268216

Graphics Tests (Score: 58)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 132

Hardware Tests (Score: 54)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 1039 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 257 MB/s


Macbookpro Total score 343************
Mac OS X 10.8.3
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2530 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

4096 MB System RAM (Score: 108)
- RAM Speed: 2838 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 205)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 51484424
- Integer Operations/Second: 107153560
- MD5 Hashes Calculated/Second: 756220

Graphics Tests (Score: 19)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 46

Hardware Tests (Score: 11)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 297 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 29 MB/s
 
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