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Mac mini
Would anybody recommend a Mac mini for a designer working in web?
Mostly 2D graphics in Photoshop, but I travel a lot. Tired of laptops, need a 22" at least to work normally, so a 22" packed with a mac mini in a trunk sounds legit, question is will that be enough to get work done? |
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Yes, I have recently bough many for myself and designers/developers, it work pretty well and it's cheap. I upgraded to 8gb ram though.
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For us it works great, no complaint from both dev and designers. |
I was VERY disappointed with every Mac Mini that I've bought. That being said, I don't have one of the brand new ones. They're cheap enough to be disposable, so that's the real draw .. changing it out every 6-12 months. I use mine as a media server in the living room, because it's as quiet as my Mac Pro and my Macbook Pro, despite the tightly-packed components.
I was underwhelmed when I opened it up to upgrade the RAM -- it's definitely not as elegant inside as the other Apple products. The Mac Pro build quality is tremendous, whereas the Mac Mini was more like every other machine out there. The upgrade was smooth and easy, but they're not designed to be user-servicable, which is a little ridiculous for a consumer machine. All in all, there are better options out there. Hope that helps. |
Mini
If you get a Mini, install the freebee Temperature Monitor. My new one runs much hotter than the old one. About 70C. Anything over 90 can damage the unit.
I run mine with a 27 inch Asus monitor as it was just slightly more than the 22. It comes with Bang & Olufsen speakers, but I can't get sound using HMDI or a Thunderbolt cable. The Mini's built in is good enough for Youtube or news clips. I just use a set of externals for music. The mini came with too little RAM, so I bumped to 16. It's faster, but I used 3rd party RAM, so I don't know if Apple RAM would have been even faster. Since I don't like batteries, I use a wired mouse. I have the mouse, printer, an external drive and Apple keyboard plugged into a cheap Office Depot USB multi-port. I tried a 7 port Belkin and the Mini couldn't see it. I'll be switching back to an Air or Macbook Pro. probably the Air as it's lighter and fits perfectly into my portfolio. Biggest issue with the Mini, is laptops in Sleep mode, everything is waiting as soon as you open up. The Mini is OK in Sleep unless I unplug it. Then I have to hope everything comes back up. Lost a lot of open web pages that way. I have to unplug it every time I leave the house. My computer table is near the front door and a thief could snatch it and be gone before the alarm went off. it's a low crime area, but I lost a a MacBook Pro before the alarm was installed. |
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For $600 base price you get a fucking dual core (in 2013?!?!), 4GB of ram, no real graphics (hd 4000 comes integrated in the cpu, made by intel) and a 500GB HDD?
For $800 base price you get a 2.3GHz cpu, 4GB of ram, no real graphics (hd 4000 comes integrated in the cpu, made by intel) and a 1TB (5400 rpm!) hdd? Christ, that's one hell of an expensive logo. Oh yeah, I also bought an Apple wireless keyboard the other day for around $80 and the half the damn keys aren't even aligned properly... So much for superior quality. |
Hey guyz, I have a mac mini I bought and barely used - the OS was trashed out of the blue and I need to reinstall, when I hold the R on reboot I start the install from the internet and once it's ready to go it asks what drive I want to install it on and there's nothing listed. I'm guessing I have a bad drive but not sure. THought I'd ask since seeing this thread.
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Once in disk utility, you should at least see the HDD listed in the left panel. If not then chances are the HDD is bad. To confirm the hdd is bad, or at least isn't being picked up by the system, you can close Disk Utility then from the same utilities menu, open Terminal, then type "diskutil list" and hit enter. Your disk should be listed there in the output, if not then something is obviously wrong somewhere. If you do see the HDD in the left panel, click on it, then in the right panel, click on "Partition". Under "Partition Layout" it *should* say "Current", click that drop-down menu, then select "1 Partition". Below the partition area, there is an "Options" button, click it. Confirm or set the partition scheme to "GUID Partition Table" then click ok. Then click "Apply", wait for it to complete. Once that is done, simply close Disk utility to get back to the installer screen and proceed with installation as normal. |
I do see the drive listed in that section, I'm going to follow that and see if that works, thanks vdbucks.
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Sales people think I'm nuts... but it's not their money, so whatever. |
The ONE reason I would hold off on buying a Mac Mini right now is that it's due for a refresh to Intel Haswell architecture.
It will be updated very soon, and it would be disappointing to be on the previous generation. I always do my machine purchases within the first week of an architecture update. |
Built my last and its the one thats lasted the longest (knock on wood)
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that price for dual , come on you can get i3 and 8gbram and nice grafic card for 800$
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Vdbucks you're obviously a big fan of mac operating system yet you still really see NONE of the value in the Apple manufacturing or hardware or software or support or design that goes behind it.
Do you think those items that are part of a mac are better or worse than say asus or dell? What's the value of these parts to consumers? Should that all be priced the same as a no name Windows brand or a dell. I mean the mac pro case alone is higher quality design amd material than a comparable dell. Should apple charge less than a dell? |
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2 hours to an Apple store where the heck do you live I wouldn't blame Apple because you live far away from metropolitan area that has an Apple store |
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They've always treated me like gold, so if this changed, my brand loyalty would rapidly erode. |
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I was thinking about getting one for a side project. If I do I will let you know how it works out for me. I was playing with one at an Apple store a few days ago and it was perfect for what I need, and was super-fast too. |
Iguess I'm spoiled since a while never lived more that 15min from apple store ...
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