Mini For Photo Editing 2015 Upgrade It To

Everything still feels snappy until it hits the boundary where the data starts loading onto the hard drive instead of the SSD.

The set Im buying is for mainly for photo and video editing, stuff that I do at home.

Since I create graphics for newspaper, Ill also comment on its ability to perform under daily deadlines.

Im not really interested in numbers so you wont see much benchmarking - go to Macworld or Barefeats for those.

Whether under stress will it start to show strange things, such as screen redraws, inability to switch from one app to another, missing palettes in software, inability to save files, inability to launch apps.

Ive an office computer (WinXP) with better specs than the Mac Mini but shows all those problems.

Other retail or online stores are selling only standard configurations.

Apple displays and that from the iMac are brilliant, but not excellent.

If you work for print, and require colour accuracy for reproduction, you have to get a non-glossy screen.

If you dont need that level of control over colours, the iMac might be a better buy.

If youre putting your computer facing light source or windows, there will be gloss.

So depending on what you do, you might not spend more on the extra processing power.

Mini For Photo Editing 2015 Upgrade It To

You can also upgrade it to 2.6Ghz but Ill only recommend it if you work more on videos.

So even if you have upgraded to 2.6Ghz, you might not get 2.6Ghz worth of processing power.

Ive noticed that this pattern during my photo batch exports and video renders.

Thats faster than my 2006 Mac Pro with a Crucial M4 SSD.

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You get snappy performance for opening applications, opening and saving huge files, copying files from USB3 or the SD card slot.

On the bright side, 128GB is more than enough for storing the OS, applications and handling daily file transfers.

For example, 500 RAW photos at 30MB each is only a 15GB import.

In theory, if youre adventurous enough, you can buy a separate SSD, fix it into the Mac Mini, and use a third party code hack to enable Fusion Drive.

They put their working files on the SSD and then move them to the hard drive after finalising.

All these manual file moving is just a waste of time, which is why I favour the Fusion Drive option.

Mac Mini For Photo Editing 2015