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Which mac for photo ? MacbookPro, iMac ? External monitor ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Exodist" data-source="post: 1596896" data-attributes="member: 284358"><p>Max Specs both machines..</p><p></p><p>Mac Mini:</p><p>- 2.6GHz i7 Quad Core with Multithreading (Boost up to 2.9Hz) (Ivy core)</p><p>- 16GB 1600Mhz DRAM</p><p>- 1TB Fusion</p><p></p><p>Mac Book Pro: (top of the line 15" retina model)</p><p>- 2.8 GHz Quad Core with Multithreading (Boost up to 4GHz) (Haswell core)</p><p>- 1TB Flash</p><p>- 16GB 1600Mhz RAM</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now the BONUS Mac Mini can house two 2.5" HDDs, so if you get the 1TB HDD version you can add your own higher speed SSD as I did.</p><p></p><p>The BONUS of the MBP is that it has nVidia GT 750 mobil GPU, but its a mobile GPU, not like having a real card. But its better then HD4000 any day.</p><p></p><p>While the MBP does have a 8% faster CPU, to be fair for the mini, it is due for an update. </p><p>So to be fair, yes these computers are very similar and are not much difference in them. The key difference is 3,199.00 -vs- 1,399.00</p><p></p><p>But I still believe my point is valid. Yes the Mac Mini is a MBP without keyboard, mouse, monitor.. There is not that much difference in them system spec wise.. Matter of fact a fully spec'd Mini is faster then any of the 13" MBP models which ONLY offer dual core CPUs. Its only the 15" models that offer quad core CPU's.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So yea.. A Mac Mini is a MBP.. The only other system Apple offers that is not using the same or extremely similar parts is the Mac Pro, which uses Xeon processors, ECC RAM and workstation class GPUs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And since were on the subject of the workstation being able to run Photoshop or Lightroom, currently not everything in PS uses a GPU. And having a huge GPU offers marginal boost in rendering. Which the HD4000 iGPU in the Mini is used and works fine. Now Lightroom does not use a GPU for any processing. If Lightroom 6 comes out next year and does offer GPU support for processing images, I will be on the next flight to Manila to pick up a Mac Pro.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Exodist, post: 1596896, member: 284358"] Max Specs both machines.. Mac Mini: - 2.6GHz i7 Quad Core with Multithreading (Boost up to 2.9Hz) (Ivy core) - 16GB 1600Mhz DRAM - 1TB Fusion Mac Book Pro: (top of the line 15" retina model) - 2.8 GHz Quad Core with Multithreading (Boost up to 4GHz) (Haswell core) - 1TB Flash - 16GB 1600Mhz RAM Now the BONUS Mac Mini can house two 2.5" HDDs, so if you get the 1TB HDD version you can add your own higher speed SSD as I did. The BONUS of the MBP is that it has nVidia GT 750 mobil GPU, but its a mobile GPU, not like having a real card. But its better then HD4000 any day. While the MBP does have a 8% faster CPU, to be fair for the mini, it is due for an update. So to be fair, yes these computers are very similar and are not much difference in them. The key difference is 3,199.00 -vs- 1,399.00 But I still believe my point is valid. Yes the Mac Mini is a MBP without keyboard, mouse, monitor.. There is not that much difference in them system spec wise.. Matter of fact a fully spec'd Mini is faster then any of the 13" MBP models which ONLY offer dual core CPUs. Its only the 15" models that offer quad core CPU's. So yea.. A Mac Mini is a MBP.. The only other system Apple offers that is not using the same or extremely similar parts is the Mac Pro, which uses Xeon processors, ECC RAM and workstation class GPUs. And since were on the subject of the workstation being able to run Photoshop or Lightroom, currently not everything in PS uses a GPU. And having a huge GPU offers marginal boost in rendering. Which the HD4000 iGPU in the Mini is used and works fine. Now Lightroom does not use a GPU for any processing. If Lightroom 6 comes out next year and does offer GPU support for processing images, I will be on the next flight to Manila to pick up a Mac Pro. [/QUOTE]
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