I agree with Bob about OWC; they are an innovative lot.
On the other hand, Chuck is the sort of person that Apple is trying to tempt to
the Other Side, so a call to their sales team should be fruitful.
I managed to buy a nearly new MacBook a couple of weeks ago – for a very good
price. But the previous owner had probably left the thing plugged to the
charger and the battery condition was only 90%. I talked this through with
Apple support (based in Athens :-)) and the experience was very useful. I then
had an appointment with a Genius in Cambridge who checked the battery for me.
It was fine, but he advised me how to keep the health from deteriorating
further: use it, don’t leave it plugged in.
I was impressed with the overall level of service, and I bet the sales team is
up to the mark.
Chris
> On 24 Dec 2015, at 13:56, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Now that I've had to go help a few unfortunate owners of new Win10 machines
> or (worse) upgraders from Win7 I have vowed I'm never going to Win10. I am
> seriously thinking of turning myself into an Apple fanboy.
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> That, of course, requires running Photoshop on some sort of Mac
> configuration. I don't want a Mac laptop (yet) and don't need a big monitor
> (already have one) so I've been thinking of Mac minis. These can be
> configured from about $500-2,000. What do I need in the way of CPU, graphics
> processor and memory to get good Photoshop performance? I make extensive use
> of ACR to process 16MP E-M1/M5 images and need to consider that the E-M1 MkII
> will likely have the 40MP mode or maybe even larger. Of course, such large
> image sizes will not be the norm but probably do dictate 16GB RAM.
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> My current machine is an HP desktop with 8GB and an AMD A8 5500 quad-core at
> 3.2GHz with integrated graphics. Performance is similar to an Intel i3 3220
> although the AMD's graphics performance is better. This has what I consider
> acceptable performance for 16MP images but hardly bowls me over. For some
> reason recent startup performance in Photoshop has become much slower. I've
> never timed it but it seems that it's not really ready to rock and roll until
> it's been up for 20-30 seconds. After that performance is normal.
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> I'd love to have something that's twice as fast or even 3 times as fast if
> that's possible.
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> Chuck Norcutt
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