I wanted mobility instead of lugging 50 to 60 lbs of air craft grade Mac Pro up flights of stairs. I am not working on 15 images at a time so for me power was not that important.
#Mac mini 2012 vs 2014 geekbench how to
In class I show how to use photo shop layers, mask, filters etc.
Since I only needed a computer for the classes I teach the Mac Mini would have been ideal but as soon as I started adding RAM and going for i7 I had to stop and think. That is the reason I chose not to get the 2014 Mac Mini my wife has the 2012 much easier to upgrade. In short, I would go for the 2014 Mini with Iris graphics, flash storage and 16 GB RAM and pick the cpu and storage size to suit your budget. A good 4 TB external USB3 drive is < £150. Look at your current machine and see how much you're using. 256 GB is plenty for OS, applications and general user data (but likely not images, video). You get a huge increase in overall responsiveness with flash storage. The Iris graphics is a significant improvement over the HD5000. Faster clock speed will help more than going from 4 to 8 threads. In my experience, the task that maxes out the cpu is rendering previews in Lightroom on import. The processors support hyper-threading, so you get four simultaneous threads with the dual core cpus. Since you can't change this choice, best to go for 16 GB. 1 TB internal storage is plenty and USB3 (or TB) external disks are fast and - if USB3 - cheap.Ĩ GB is enough for photo editing, 16 GB allows for more applications open/working at the same time. The fact is that the architecture of these machines allows a maximum of 16 GB RAM - now and in the future - and you can buy it with 16 GB now. There's a lot of noise from people complaining about the 'lack of upgradability' of the new Mac Minis, which I think is really a complaint that it costs too much.
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