Re: OT: Any Mac Geniuses on the List who can advise on a Mac for Christmas?

snipping "The line is becoming heavily blurred between RAM, disk cache, and disk storage. Over time, the cache and disk speed will become so well-tuned that it will just look like a single huge chunk of static RAM." Intel has REALLY blurred this line with their optane drives. near RAM like

Re: OT: Any Mac Geniuses on the List who can advise on a Mac for Christmas?

“Not enough” what? Without further details, I think this is really not very informative. It’s very likely that he could double his RAM and see little if any improvement in his video editing experience. I find it hard to grasp how going from 8GB to 16GB would make a significant difference in

Re: OT: Any Mac Geniuses on the List who can advise on a Mac for Christmas?

I would say that you should use at least the i7 with 16gb RAM. My buddy does video editing with an i7 and 8gb and it's not enough.   Regards, Jason From: David Schwartz Sent: Nov 30, 2017 11:17 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list

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Generally speaking, the more RAM the better. Also, video editing is going to benefit from more RAM and SSD no matter what. But if you had to make a choice between more RAM and an SSD, go with the SSD because the transfer rates to/from disk will make a far bigger difference in overall

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yeah, Ram and disk have a huge impact, and the presence of a GPU doesn't even need to be massive, just present will assist in encoding. I was looking at the late 2013 and the 2014 models I am a fan of those. sad the ram is on board though. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <

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When it comes to video editing the more RAM the better. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Thanks for all the great input - especially the refurbished Mac stores! > > A more technical question - am I correct is assuming she

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Thanks for all the great input - especially the refurbished Mac stores! A more technical question - am I correct is assuming she needs 16 GB of RAM and a quad core i7 processor to edit 60 minutes of video footage? Or, is this over kill? Thanks! Mark On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Stephen

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The 15-inch MBP's have Radeon 555 or 560 graphics with either 2 or 4GB. and the iMac Pro comes with Radeon Vega Pro based graphics and all the horsepower (and then some) the Mac Pro came with. My guess they will use that as the basis for either replacing the Mac Pro or setting its place. On Thu,

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The new mac pro isn’t really pro any more. If she needs a gpu, they are phasing them out right now. So video editing and rendering is all processor based now. Citation : my work just bought me a macbook pro three days ago and it has no gpu and no pro had a gpu as an available option. > On

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Getting a machine with a Spinning Disk is an easy upgrade to SSD for less than the apple price difference. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:49 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > I’ve been using Macs regularly since I got a 27” iMac back in 2006. > > I’ve had a few Mac Minis, and

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I’ve been using Macs regularly since I got a 27” iMac back in 2006. I’ve had a few Mac Minis, and both them and the old white iMacs could be opened up (with a little effort) and upgraded. Newer stuff is much harder to crack open, although I’m told MBPs can be upgraded without much trouble by

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You can find great Mac deals here. This place is in Phoenix. http://theapplexchange.com/wp/home/current-inventory/ Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > > recent vintage mac mini with 4 or 8 GB ram, Core i7 or i9, 256 GB or larger >

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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.

OT: Any Mac Geniuses on the List who can advise on a Mac for Christmas?

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,