Current Mac minis outperform my 2009 models with which I am still happy. So dual core I guess would be sufficient no need for upgrade on graphics card.
Jürgen ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://lupo.jhsph.edu On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:59, "Cara Vaughan" <c.vaug...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear CCP4BB > > I'm thinking about buying a Mac Mini and was looking for advice from > people who have used these for crystallography. > > We don't need the computer to do serious number-crunching as we have > back-end servers that can do this for us, so it is primarily for > running coot for model building, etc. and low intensity > crystallography jobs. > > I've seen from the archive that some people do use the Mac Mini for > crystallography and I've got two questions: > 1. Do I need the Quad core or is a Dual core processor enough? > 2. Is the intergrated Intel HD graphics card OK for crystallography > requirements? > > All the best, > Cara. > > > Cara Vaughan > Lecturer in Structural Biology > Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology > Birkbeck College and UCL > London UK > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
