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Mac Mini

Per Ulrik Pedersen
Hi! Anyone here using Mac Mini together with CO8?
If the case, then what processor and RAM size inside?
Fusion drive or standard type harddisk?¨

What are the the experiences?

I consider to replace my Windows PC with a Mac but has already a nice screen and do not want to pay 4000 DKK for another screen if I turn to the iMac.

br Per Ulrik
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  • Michael Sonshine
    I am also a bit curious about this as I have a MacBook Pro that I use with CO8 and have been wondering about replacing it with a Mac Mini. The specs of the two machines seem almost identical and I have been wondering if their performance was also almost identical.
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  • Ronald Smits
    Not sure what model MacBookPro you're talking about, but the 15" models do have a more powerful dual GPU. CO will certainly benefit from that. Unless your comparing a 4yr old MBP with a 2016 Mac Mini with the next gen intel cpu/onboard GPU, in that case the MacMini might beat the MBP.

    Cheers,
    Ron
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  • Michael Sonshine
    [quote="Productshots" wrote:
    Not sure what model MacBookPro you're talking about, but the 15" models do have a more powerful dual GPU. CO will certainly benefit from that. Unless your comparing a 4yr old MBP with a 2016 Mac Mini with the next gen intel cpu/onboard GPU, in that case the MacMini might beat the MBP.

    Cheers,
    Ron

    You are correct. I was not clear in my post as I did not give any information on what machine I was using. My apologies.

    I am currently using a 2 year old MacBook Pro Retina with the i7 chip, 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD. The Retina screen has been giving my eyes trouble for some time now and I bought a 24" external monitor (a Dell UltraSharp) and use it instead of the Retina Screen. This means that I sit on a sofa (I don't do desks now that I have retired ... 😊 ) with the monitor about 4 feet in front of me. The entire setup is comfortable enough except that I now have all of these wires connecting the MBP on my lap with the monitor. I began to think that perhaps a Mac Mini might be more comfortable to use since the wires would be gone and all I would have to use would be a keyboard and trackpad.

    The issue is that I don't know if a current Mac Mini is more powerful than, the same as, or less powerful than my current MBP. On paper (well, on screen, I guess) the specs look very similar. Both can be configured only to 16GB of ram and a similarly clocked i7. I know nothing of the differences in graphics cards between the MBP and the Mac Mini and whether a change would help or be detrimental to my photo editing (which is all personal stuff. No business stuff here).

    Any information would be helpful. Thank you.
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  • Billiam29
    Hello,

    I just started evaluating Capture One Pro 8 on a Mac Mini. The specifics of my system are below. I have only been using the software for a couple of days but it has seemed plenty responsive so far. That said, I am using the Mac Mini only as a tethered capture station. I have not done any realistic RAW conversion/image editing with it. Those tasks will be done on different and more powerful Mac.

    Mac Mini mid-2011 (5,2)
    Yosemite 10.10.5
    Dual core Sandy Bridge i7 @ 2.7 GHz
    16 GB RAM
    750 GB 7,200 RPM HD
    AMD Radeon HD 6630m discrete graphics
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  • Brian Eaves
    I have a 2013 mac mini quad core i7
    16 gigs of RAM and I put a 500 gig solid-state drive inside of it.
    So specially if there's two drives inside of it the factory 500 gigs and Apple installed.
    Several mac mini models you can install a second Drive by using a data doubler from OWC .
    This Mac configurations seems to work great for my Lightroom 5 library, which has over 250 K files
    on a exteral G-tech 5 TB Thunderbolt 2 drive.
    If it's only shooting station, booting/shooting to a SSD drive, should be fast enough.
    Having that Mini connected Ethernet to the network, then transferring the session another computer to actually process out the files should like a good workflow.

    You'd probably have to play with turning on/off open CL.
    I mean how many Macintosh (MacPro, iMac Retina/non Retina, MacBook Pro Retina/non GPUs are actually supported with the current version of capture one 8?
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  • meanwhile
    On the 2012 2.6 GHz i7 Mac Mini here with SSD drives, 16GB of RAM, 24" EIZO FS2333. While not a speed demon, it's plenty fast enough to deal with 24MP RAW files, GUI and editing is responsive, importing/exporting is quick. Catalog with over 20,000 images, mainly RAWs, works fast enough for me.

    If I was a professional, with a large throughput, I'd be looking at much faster systems, but if that is not you, it works well.
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  • Ronald Smits
    Mike,

    reading your reply below, makes me think that your MBP would only be a few % faster than a current macmini.
    Ohh yes it will be faster, but only 10/15% max I expect.

    Such minimal perfomance gain wouldn't be enough justification for me to add a macmini to my setup.


    cheers,
    Ron

    [quote="MikeFromMesa" wrote:
    [quote="Productshots" wrote:
    Not sure what model MacBookPro you're talking about, but the 15" models do have a more powerful dual GPU. CO will certainly benefit from that. Unless your comparing a 4yr old MBP with a 2016 Mac Mini with the next gen intel cpu/onboard GPU, in that case the MacMini might beat the MBP.

    Cheers,
    Ron

    You are correct. I was not clear in my post as I did not give any information on what machine I was using. My apologies.

    I am currently using a 2 year old MacBook Pro Retina with the i7 chip, 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD. The Retina screen has been giving my eyes trouble for some time now and I bought a 24" external monitor (a Dell UltraSharp) and use it instead of the Retina Screen. This means that I sit on a sofa (I don't do desks now that I have retired ... 😊 ) with the monitor about 4 feet in front of me. The entire setup is comfortable enough except that I now have all of these wires connecting the MBP on my lap with the monitor. I began to think that perhaps a Mac Mini might be more comfortable to use since the wires would be gone and all I would have to use would be a keyboard and trackpad.

    The issue is that I don't know if a current Mac Mini is more powerful than, the same as, or less powerful than my current MBP. On paper (well, on screen, I guess) the specs look very similar. Both can be configured only to 16GB of ram and a similarly clocked i7. I know nothing of the differences in graphics cards between the MBP and the Mac Mini and whether a change would help or be detrimental to my photo editing (which is all personal stuff. No business stuff here).

    Any information would be helpful. Thank you.
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