I've read some rumours about Intel-based Macs early in the New Year,
and it is tempting to wait. But the main reason I want to upgrade is
that I use Photoshop quite a bit, and I want some better performance. I
don't think Adobe will have re-written PS2 for the new environment by
the New Year, in which case PS work operation will have to be done
through the translation utility (the 'Rosetta' layer?), which will lose
many of the performance advantages of the higher speed.
No, unless they really surprise us with a full roll-out of Intel Macs
at San Francisco I think I'm going to go for one of these new Minis.
I've been checking the specs of my 12" PB, and I hadn't realised how
low-spec it is, in comparison with where we are today: 867 Mhz CPU, 256
Mb cache, slow bus speed, only 32 Mb VRAM, 4200rpm disk drives. A move
to a 1.5 Ghz Mini, especially with 64Mb VRAM and a 5400 rpm hard drive,
will be a huge upgrade, for not too much money. I can happily use that
for a year or more, and then review the Mac market after the transition
to Intel has finished. When we discussed this a couple of weeks or so
ago, the reservations people expressed were mainly to do with VRAM and
disk performance, and these new Minis seem to address them.
Tom Burke
On 24 Nov 2005, at 10:42, Ed Jones wrote:
On 24/11/05 8:31 am, "Tom Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I should have read further in the article: 5400 rpm hard drives are
standard.
So: a very small CPU upgrade, the faster model gets twice the VRAM,
and
you're assured of a 5400 rpm HD. That's a big set of upgrades to what
is a low-end machine, and has just made me rethink my New Year
plans....
From what I've read, January will see the introduction of the new mini
with
a dual core Intel chip. Will probably have a better video option. It
might
be worth your while to wait six weeks.
Ed
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