[Cube] Can the Mac Mini handle graphic Design?

[Stefan]

Hi Martin,

some weeks ago I had the opportunity to compare my cube (1.5 GHz 
Upgrade of GigaDesign, Geforce 4 mx, 1,5 GB RAM) for a longer time 
with the fastest Mac mini 1,42 GHz and 80 GB HD, 1 GB RAM.

Although I like the Mac mini very much and enjoyed to work with it, I 
would answer: Definitely NO for your purposes.

Yet I intend to buy a Mac mini with these specs for daily work (and 
fun too... :-), but it's really a little bit too slowly for more, - 
even compared with my  now also "antique" cube. In several situations 
(your wishes would be everyday's situation!) I got the impression, 
the mini seems to hesitate to begin working. The rainbow-circle is no 
rare event.... Yet , the mini is very good for all SOHO-works: calm, 
needs nearly no power, good graphics on my 20' Apple TFT, it can run 
as my fax-server around the clock etc.

I didn't work with an exterial FW-drive but don't think this would be 
an important difference (I'm interested to read about other 
experiences).

It's a pitty with the mini.
But you'll need a faster machine!

Wish you a good decision, Martin
(& wished I could give another answer)

Regards
Stefan





>I am thinking of buying a top end (1.42ghz 1GB 80GBHD) mac mini- I 
>would also buy a large 200 gb external wirewire HardDrive . I will 
>be using the mac mini only for graphic design work, using photoshop 
>cs, illustrator cs, quark and alittle indesign, microsoft office.
>
>Does anyone know if the mac mini can do the job? I'll be using files 
>upto 100gb files and shipping them back and forth between programms, 
>especially photoshop and illustrator.
>
>Should I get the mac mioni or a second hard power mac dual? I cant 
>afford a G5 so unfortunatley thats out the question.
>
>Any response would be very welcome
>
>Martin