And is there a major difference in speed and ease of use when compared with say, a 2.53 MBP running the 9400?
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How well does the 2.23 mini cope with Aperture 2?
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The Hammer
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That would be great! Can you try it with a few RAW files?
I wish there was a way to see a mini with 4gigs and a 7200 HDD in action at the Apple store. The stock config seems very slow, even for things like opening Word or Imovie!
geoffreak
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Well, I disagree with your disagreement. After working on a 2.26GHz with 2GB RAM and the stock 160GB HDD for about a month, I can assure you that you cannot find a computer with a slower hard drive on the market.
Basically, I couldn't do more than one thing at a time before the computer would start to excessively slow down. Even using Plex with media stored on an external HDD was nearly impossible.
After placing a WD Scorpio Black 320GB HDD inside the Mini, I can actually use the computer.
Why on earth does Apple not have a drive that is actually usable as standard? They do it on all the other product lines.
There is no noticeable difference in processing power between 2 GHz and 2.26GHz compared to the difference a faster HDD makes.