Hi Cara,
Any reason for the Mac Mini over the iMac? - presumably as you've got a suitable monitor / keyboard already?
We're pretty much exclusively iMac of late (ditched the towers) and finding them absolutely fine for both fairly intensive jobs (refinement) and visualisation/building (Coot / PyMOL).
We working with the quad-core i7's - but a lower spec is probably ok too - just boost the memory if you can.
With regards,
Tony.
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On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:00, "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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