I'm looking to upgrade my old mac, to a machine capable of running Adobe CS5 (mainly Photoshop, Indesign, Dreamweaver and Illustrator - all open together).
I've come from a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, to a Mac mini C2D 1.83 - which was supposed to be a short term solution, but I'm still running it after 2+ years. Whilst it runs the software, it does suffer with large files and also with all the packages open at once.
iMacs look great machines, but I cannot live with the glossy screen in my work environment (why i ended up with the mac mini).
How would the new Mac mini's run this software. I don't do any heavy movie editing (just the odd holiday HD video in iMovie). I'm tempted by the mac mini server version with the quad core i7, as it's a quad and has faster drives - but will photoshop suffer from the lower graphics capability.
Would the dual core i7 2.7 be better?
I'd add an SSD at a later date, and would run 8gb Memory from the start.
I've come from a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, to a Mac mini C2D 1.83 - which was supposed to be a short term solution, but I'm still running it after 2+ years. Whilst it runs the software, it does suffer with large files and also with all the packages open at once.
iMacs look great machines, but I cannot live with the glossy screen in my work environment (why i ended up with the mac mini).
How would the new Mac mini's run this software. I don't do any heavy movie editing (just the odd holiday HD video in iMovie). I'm tempted by the mac mini server version with the quad core i7, as it's a quad and has faster drives - but will photoshop suffer from the lower graphics capability.
Would the dual core i7 2.7 be better?
I'd add an SSD at a later date, and would run 8gb Memory from the start.