[X4U] Negligible speed bumps...

[Zane H. Healy]

At 3:33 PM -0600 3/7/09, Joe Sporleder wrote:
>On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Neil wrote:
>
>>On the positive side, the support for dual displays including 
>>dual-link DVI, plus FW800 and the fifth USB2 port are nice and not 
>>entirely expected.  Overall, this would have been a nice upgrade if 
>>it came six to ten months ago.
>
>For us small community newspaper publishers, the new Mac mini with 
>the ability to support 2 displays and a capacity for 4GB of RAM 
>makes a nice bargain machine for ad design and basic Photoshop color 
>correction. I know for my world, Apple would probably say the iMac 
>is ideal with a mixture of power and convenience. However, I like to 
>choose my own displays, this gives me more flexibility when updating 
>workstations from one computer to another, with the old becoming a 
>hand-me-down for another need. I have nothing against the iMac tho, 
>in fact, I recently grabbed an iMac bargain from Apple.com store's 
>refurbished section, upgraded it for 4GB of RAM and are quite happy 
>with it.

The best two things I can see about the new Mac Mini are the FW800 
and the 4GB of RAM.  I could just about live with a Mac Mini now, 
though I would have to seriously change how I work.

For people using Photoshop, the magazine "Photo Techniques" has an 
interesting article in their March/April issue, that shows how to get 
the best performance out of Photoshop on your Mac.  I found it to be 
most interesting and it will be used as part of my justification for 
getting a Mac Pro with 16GB RAM (I had planned on starting at 8GB).

Zane


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