On Sep 5, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > That link from Steve is nice. I was wondering what the difference > betweent he 3000 and the 4000 was. If I had gotten one with a > 3000 gpu, I would have been bumming hard right now. > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:57:12PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Ah! Good to know. I hadn't dug deep enough on that yet. >> >> I'd want to drive two DVI monitors externally then and it *looks* like >> that's possible. I think that unfortunately the Apple thunderbolt >> display is insanely expensive. > > Not quite insanely so if you get a refurb one, and can scrounge up > a discount. By the time the dust settled mine was about $750, which is merely > damn expensive. But display+mini is about the same as an iMac. > > I figure that it's the Apple tax. I'm stoked that it looks like I can > run three displays, that could be very handy. > > At some point I'll need to research thunderbolt hubs, so that I can > run more t-bolt devices off the one port. > >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:49 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> on 2013-09-05 16:35 Bruce Walker wrote >>> >>>> And for me, the biggest disadvantage to the Mac Mini is not being able >>>> to support a dual display with it. >>> >>> >>> recent Minis support dual displays — two Thunderbolt or one Thunderbolt and >>> one HDMI; the 2011 Mini with discrete GPU that i have supports three >>> displays >>> >>> <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219?viewlocale=en_US#dispnum> >>> >>>
One of the big issues for me will be how many ports of what modality. And one thing I am quite unclear on: I know that if I daisy-chain FW400 and FW800 devices, I will limit throughput to the FW400 capacity. But what if I daisy-chain USB2 and USB3 devices? I am assuming that I take the same hit in potential speed. Which means I would want one or more USB ports free to use with USB3-capable externals, one or more USB ports to handle my older devices (printer, scanner, CD writer) which won't run at USB3 speeds. And one T'bolt port with FW adapter for FW800 externals, one T'bolt port with FW adapter for FW400 externals. Assuming all of the above is correct, I have thought of instead buying 2 new 4-6 TB RAID drives, backing up all of my legacy drives to the new drives, and stashing the old ones in a closet. But when I did the math, including memory and generous internal drive space, my projected 27" iMac was going to be close to $5000. Which is another reason I am putting off a decision for a while. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
