I ordered one right after it was announced. It should be here by Friday. It will perform about the same as a current PowerBook, and I've already seen Xbench results to support that statement.
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Wow, if it is as good as a powerbook....and only half the price. Wow. Of course a lot less than half if you already have a nice monitor etc.. Do you plan to record with it? Can you give a link to that benchmark? I would be REALLY interested in that.
You can look elsewhere on that site to compare against other Macs. I may use it for some recording, but I've got a PowerBook and a fast PC already, so the mini certainly won't be dedicated to recording.
it seems, according to the benchmark mentioned, that the faster mac mini is otherwise as fast as my 1.25GHz powerbook (total score 128, average of 3 runs) but has sucky hard drive performance. it also seems strange that mini mac has a lot worse performance on thread and memory tests. it seems apple may have had to cut some corners in making it so small...
Im a pc user and interested in switching my mbox setup to mac, via the mini mac. I was wondering how vital using an external hard drive would be. Since i would be dual running the pc and mac, all the mac ould be doing is running pro tools, and 80Gb would be fine for my purposes. My issue though is with the speed of the mini's disk access. How much would this affect pro tools behaviour do you think? Surely it cant be worse than running a drive through a (relatively) slow firewire bus?
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The thing i don't get though is even if the internal drive is slower, relatively speaking the firewire bus is much slower than the internal ide bus (50MB/second compared to 100MB/second respectively) so the actual speed of the internal drive is the bottle neck. But is the relatively slower rotational speed of the mini mac internal drive really that much slower than the 50MB/second max transfer rate of the firewire bus? If someone could clear this up that would be great!
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