I switched from win8 to macbook pro retina 2 months ago and love it.
Now I want to switch my partner who is a blogger, uses photoshop elements, and surfs. He typically keeps a gazillion things open at once and never reboots. (bad user).
This is what I spec'd out:
2.3GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x8GB
256GB Solid State Drive
Apple USB SuperDrive
Apple Magic Mouse
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac mini - Auto-enroll
Accessory Kit
He presently has 2 TB of photos on his current win 7 (four year old quad core AMD pc). It's a slow and terrible pc, maybe just from winrot.
Since I just got a synology DS214 NAS, I was thinking of having him access his photos over gigabit (wired).
Questions about that:
1) Do you think having his "data" be across gigabit will be worse than his current setup - old pc with local storage? Should I just get him an external 4TB USB 3 drive for his data, and maybe sync that to the NAS for backup?
2) Does it make sense to get the solid state drive for his OS if all his data is across gigabit? He never reboots and if the apps are loaded into memory (how much OS disk access will there be)?
3) I love the SSD in my new retina MBP and I think not having a spinning hard drive would make his rig be more reliable.
The geeky IT guy in me doesn't want to buy something that's about to be phased out. However, after spec'ing out the mac mini, it seems plenty powerful for his needs.
All thoughts and comments would be welcome.
Thanks,
Mike
Now I want to switch my partner who is a blogger, uses photoshop elements, and surfs. He typically keeps a gazillion things open at once and never reboots. (bad user).
This is what I spec'd out:
2.3GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x8GB
256GB Solid State Drive
Apple USB SuperDrive
Apple Magic Mouse
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac mini - Auto-enroll
Accessory Kit
He presently has 2 TB of photos on his current win 7 (four year old quad core AMD pc). It's a slow and terrible pc, maybe just from winrot.
Since I just got a synology DS214 NAS, I was thinking of having him access his photos over gigabit (wired).
Questions about that:
1) Do you think having his "data" be across gigabit will be worse than his current setup - old pc with local storage? Should I just get him an external 4TB USB 3 drive for his data, and maybe sync that to the NAS for backup?
2) Does it make sense to get the solid state drive for his OS if all his data is across gigabit? He never reboots and if the apps are loaded into memory (how much OS disk access will there be)?
3) I love the SSD in my new retina MBP and I think not having a spinning hard drive would make his rig be more reliable.
The geeky IT guy in me doesn't want to buy something that's about to be phased out. However, after spec'ing out the mac mini, it seems plenty powerful for his needs.
All thoughts and comments would be welcome.
Thanks,
Mike