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**Gulauur** · 03-07-2009, 05:53 AM

The Mac Mini falls into that category. And its very good for that.

The newer 2ghz C2D mac Mini's are as fast at photoshop as the older 2ghz powermac G5s, even the dual models. They lack dedicated graphics cards, but most of photoshop is done with the CPU anyways. That'll probably change with OpenCL.

They fall into what category? If you mean the cheap office market, they don't. By the time you have bought a mac mini, apple screen, keyboard and mouse you might as well have bought an iMac.

I just checked it out and I can't believe a basic Mac Mini is now £499 just for the box. You can get a full PC system with twice the power for that!

As for them being fine with photoshop....yeh they are to a point but again, compared to a Mac Pro they are no contest. I have a Mac Mini on my desk and an iMac in my receptionists room and 5 Mac Pro's in the studio so I have compared them on day to day tasks. Plus as I said, I was talking about heavy lifting like Final Cut Pro (video editing). The iMac's just aren't up to it. Neither are similar spec PC's.

03-07-2009, 05:53 AM	#9
Gulauur Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 595 Senior Member	The Mac Mini falls into that category. And its very good for that. The newer 2ghz C2D mac Mini's are as fast at photoshop as the older 2ghz powermac G5s, even the dual models. They lack dedicated graphics cards, but most of photoshop is done with the CPU anyways. That'll probably change with OpenCL. They fall into what category? If you mean the cheap office market, they don't. By the time you have bought a mac mini, apple screen, keyboard and mouse you might as well have bought an iMac. I just checked it out and I can't believe a basic Mac Mini is now £499 just for the box. You can get a full PC system with twice the power for that! As for them being fine with photoshop....yeh they are to a point but again, compared to a Mac Pro they are no contest. I have a Mac Mini on my desk and an iMac in my receptionists room and 5 Mac Pro's in the studio so I have compared them on day to day tasks. Plus as I said, I was talking about heavy lifting like Final Cut Pro (video editing). The iMac's just aren't up to it. Neither are similar spec PC's.
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