recent vintage mac mini with 4 or 8 GB ram, Core i7 or i9, 256 GB or larger HDD/SDD and superdrive. the upper end units can run about $1,000 and are available online, or at the apple store, fry's electronics or best buy.
these are reasonably powerful units that don't use a lot of juice. hopefully, this helps. -eric from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Sales and hardware support On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > It is time to upgrade my daughter's 2009 Macbook Pro. She does not need the > portability of a laptop as she uses her iPad for that. He home use is not > that demanding, except that she loves to edit her diving and vacation movies. > She could use a Mac mini, as she has a 23" monitor, apple keyboard, and apple > mouse. However, I am not sure there is enough RAM and horsepower in a Mac > mini, so I have been looking at iMacs as well. > > My assumptions are she needs at least 16 GB of RAM and a quad core i7 for > serious video editing (around an hour of 1080p 60 Hz. video when rendered). > Which puts us up around $1400+. Are my assumptions correct, or off base? What > should we be looking at? > > She was a Linux user when she was younger, but then they grow up, go to > college, get a job, get married, and think they know everything....;) (she > ditched Linux in college) > > Thanks! > > Mark > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
