New Mac Mini ?
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- thejudders
To the Apple guys what do you think of the new Mac mini if I bought the top model and added 1Gig of memory to it and used it for design work.
Would Adobe and Macomedia stuff run faster than it would have on the old mini even under Rosetta? There is now spacific details of this online anywhere
- prophet0NE0
Adobe says CS2 apps may run slower under Rosetta than natively on a G4/G5. Not sure about pre CS2 or Macromedia apps.
- imakedesign0
by a dell or build your own pc and for the same amount of money you wont have to worry about things slowing down.
- thejudders0
I know that it would be slower, but do you think it would be about the same as the performance on an old Mac mini ? Thats what im trying to work out. The last Mac I was working on was a 400 Mhz G4 with 128mb ram.. it was an old tower and it managed to run Photoshop and freehand... would the performance be better than that ? surely it would right ?
- imakedesign0
*buy
- imakedesign0
sorry you did say 'to the apple guys'
i will leave now.
- Mimio0
cocaine
- thejudders0
Yeah trying to aviod the whole Pc/Mac issue. Basically ive been holding out for the updated Minis and most of my software is for a Mac. Just looking for someone with the facts about preformace
- ********0
judders, I was considering the same thing yesterday. The ultimate conclusion I came to was that if I were to buy new it would be an iMac. I'm not fully confident in the mini as a workstation.
- ********0
Also, where's PacoTaco to tell us all we're Mac loyalist retards? I'm surprised he isn't in this thread yet.
- thejudders0
It is a bit a dilemma designaked. Thing is I have an Apple monitor ready for use on a new machine and its gathering dust.. I dont wanna buy an all in one. Maybe the speed comparisons im after will surface soon though
- squarEyes0
Buy something that you can upgrade, you can upgrade a Mac Mini, but you have to crack open the case and it does not go back on correctly. A gig of memory will do you just fine. If i'm running photoshop, I like to have at least 30 gigs of hard drive space free also, photoshop uses that free space, well maybe not 30 gigs, but it seems to run smoother.
- ********0
As far as the speed of design software.....I'm not buying ANY of the new Intel Macs mainly because Adobe won't be fully supporting them until CS3.....which probably won't be out for another 8-14 months.
- StratusGD0
Judder, the new iMacs natively support multiple displays - so your monitor wouldn't go to waste. Also, people have compared CS2 running on the faster Intel iMacs to running on a 1Ghz g4 (a 1Ghz G4 15" Powerbook is my daily use machine) so it'll be slow, but not painful.
Honestly, it's a good thing that Adobe doesn't have universal apps out yet - it'd make it much harder to hold out for the Intel-based towers.
- ********0
considering that there is no real app out there for the new Mac line, i dont know why ppl would buy it now
- thejudders0
The upgrade options open to me if i get a Mac mini make it very tempting, but i have looked into all that.
If I could get an idea of what model of Mac the speed would be equivalent to I would be very happy. I’m sure it cant be that bad and soon enough Adobe will have CS2 out and I’m due an upgrade anyways.
At the end of the day I dont want to buy it thinking that im getting a cheap stable Mac to do design work on and it turns out to be slower than much older Macs (Temporarily) Im sure Im not the only person considering the machine for design work, we cant all afford a tower Mac
- ********0
o btw there is no Adobe app that will work on the new intel Macs
Adobe
“Adobe is excited about Apple’s move to the Intel platform. Adobe was one of the first companies that committed to develop software for the new platform, with future versions of Adobe Creative Suite supporting both PowerPC- and Intel-based systems. Adobe is moving forward with transition plans for other Macintosh products, beginning with Lightroom — where we plan to include support for Apple’s new Intel-based products in an upcoming update to our public beta.”
- Dave Burkett, Vice President, Product Management,
Adobe Systems Incorporated
- thejudders0
I have Photoshop 7, it should run under Rosetta. That does not sound to bad Stratus, that sounds like a workable speed.. It would not be much different on the Mini then with plenty of Ram.
I used to design on an iMac 400 Mhz with 128mb ram !! It worked fine when the applications were running, load times were slow.
- thejudders0
Designer on a budget!