> Any reason for the Mac Mini over the iMac
A zalman monitor ir can you hook up a second monitor in stereo mode to your iMac ?
Jürgen
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Jürgen Bosch
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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On Jan 22, 2013, at 15:13, "Antony Oliver" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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