I'm mostly talking about people who use their MacBook Pros as desktop machines, but I thought it might be interesting to have a thread for anyone making this jump.
I currently use a 2014 MacBook Pro 15" as a desktop in clamshell mode connected to three monitors, an external keyboard and mouse, and way too many external hard disks. It's still a pretty good machine, but it does occasionally choke when editing 1080p video in Final Cut X, and 4k video is totally out of the question. While I could continue using it for a while longer, given Apple's upgrade cycle, I was thinking that this might be a good time to go ahead and switch to the Mac mini.
Just going by Geekbench scores and people's impressions, it sounds like anything but the i3 base model of Mac Mini would be a significant performance upgrade, but I was wondering if people had any thoughts about this. I especially want to avoid going through the trouble and expense of buying a new machine only to find out that it's worse than what I have in some way. (I'm aware that the mini lacks a dedicated graphics card, but I'm not sure that it will affect my usage much. Would it be a problem for Final Cut?)
I'm considering the i5 model with either 16 or 32GB of RAM and either 512GB or 1TB SSD.
I currently use a 2014 MacBook Pro 15" as a desktop in clamshell mode connected to three monitors, an external keyboard and mouse, and way too many external hard disks. It's still a pretty good machine, but it does occasionally choke when editing 1080p video in Final Cut X, and 4k video is totally out of the question. While I could continue using it for a while longer, given Apple's upgrade cycle, I was thinking that this might be a good time to go ahead and switch to the Mac mini.
Just going by Geekbench scores and people's impressions, it sounds like anything but the i3 base model of Mac Mini would be a significant performance upgrade, but I was wondering if people had any thoughts about this. I especially want to avoid going through the trouble and expense of buying a new machine only to find out that it's worse than what I have in some way. (I'm aware that the mini lacks a dedicated graphics card, but I'm not sure that it will affect my usage much. Would it be a problem for Final Cut?)
I'm considering the i5 model with either 16 or 32GB of RAM and either 512GB or 1TB SSD.