Adobe on Mac mini ??

[korpka]

I currently have a PC - Pentium 4, 2.4ghz w 1gb memory. How will the Mac Mini Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz compare to this when running adobe software?

Thanks

[DanontheMoon]

From what I've seen, sucks. None of the people I work with that use mac minis seem to actually like them, and I've seen an awful lot of mac minis for sale on craigslist.org. Guess they aren't worth the price. Stick with the PC.

[nobody]

Adobe what?

[Stratification]

Memory is going to be the biggest issue, I'd recommend 2 GB, though keep in mind that Apple charges an arm and a leg for their memory. You might be better of upgrading that yourself. The actual hardware, though, is similar to my MacBook which runs everything in CS3 Web Premium quite well.

[bobbyanderson]

I use CS3 with my Mac Mini and thats only a 1.8Ghz Intel Core Duo with 1Gb RAM, works fine, I couldn't tell you how it compares to the PC as I've only used CS3 on a Mac thus far but I did use CS2 on it as well, major improvements so far as performance goes between the two

[korpka]

thx just want to know if my cs3 stuff will work better on the mac mini compared to my P4.
Isn't there a site that compares all these processors including macs, to each other in application like photoshop?

[johnlouis]

planning on getting a mini myself.. would like to read some more comments about this topic.

[hybrid101]

iMac pwns the Mac Mini in terms of performance. if i were you, i'd rather get a better PC than a mac mini;)

[bobbyanderson]

iMac pwns the Mac Mini in terms of performance.

Most obvious statement of the year goes to ;)

The Mac Mini IMO wasn't designed to be a fully fledged designer/performance machine, more of a media centre with Front Row available to it with the remote control simply due to the fact you can not get graphics any better than the integrated Intel ones but from my experience of having used one over the past year, generally its been fantastic.

I use it with a 32" Samsung HDTV, for watching DVDs and full screen divx it is simply immense, performance wise as far as things as CS3 goes, while obviously it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as a specced up iMac or Mac Pro it does hold its own. Web Premium CS3 runs brilliantly on it, very smooth with a few applications running, and this is an older Mac Mini that is only a Duo Core, not a Duo Core 2.

I also just this weekend installed Parallels with Windows XP on it for testing purposes with IE6 and to put a few old games on it for whenever I had a spare minute or two, absolutely no lag/slowdown whatsoever.

My only recommendation is that if you are going to get one, pack it with RAM, when I got mine I specced it up to the best processor available at the time and also 1Gb of RAM. At the moment I am in two minds whether to get myself a Macbook Pro or go all out and get a Mac Pro, but neither of those would be to replace my Mac Mini.

[korpka]

cool, another question. I heard there are mac's that also have windows on them so you can switch back and forth? the reason is, that I want to keep my pc but it takes up too much space that's why I was going to get a mac mini. Maybe I should get a mac book.

[bobbyanderson]

Yeh you can have Windows on any Mac that has Parallels installed, I'm posting this on my Mac Mini in Opera on Windows XP SP2.

I only have a 80Gb HD in my Mac Mini, I have 40Gb taken up already by OS X & all my apps like CS3, XP SP2 is also installed on that but I've set up my 200Gb external HD as a shared folder for the Windows Documents and the Mac stuff so its easily manageable.