On 8 Dec 2015, at 23:17, hugh wrote:
It’s unlikely to be a MacMini unless you put an SSD into it. The native drives tend to be 5200 rpm laptop ones. The Mini can also be restricted in the memory department.
David
Hi David, not sure I understand? You mean the tech spec would be too low to run Parallels or drive an external screen or something?
I run Freehand on an old Macbook, too, and performance is perfectly adequate.
The mini has always been lower performing. Current models do have Fusion or SSD drives, but only the top model has a faster processor than my 2009 MacBook Pro. The web site doesn’t say what the memory options are, but the specs shown for the speed tests show 8GB, so there is a choice. Less than 8GB is a waste of time if you’re running Parallels for serious work. The emulated SL will need lots.
What Apple push in the mini specs are the small size and the energy efficiency. The first you want. The second doesn’t really fit with the primary use being emulation of another OSX. Unix can be light and efficient (I used to run Unix on a machine with 20MB disk and 1MB memory - it would run in 256KB); although it is based on Unix, OSX is not. It has a lot of extra stuff that uses a lot of resources.
David
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