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
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Jürgen Bosch
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
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On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:59, "Cara Vaughan" <[log in to unmask]> 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
>
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