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From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:16:59 -0500
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Subject: [OT] first impressions of late 2012 mac mini
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Finally broke down and bought a new mac mini to help do some prores
encoding. the specs are 1TB hdd, 2.3 ghz quad core i7, 16 GB RAM,
thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and FW 800.

Cinebench 11.5 CPU score was 6.5. That is awesome. My i7 2010 MBP gets 2.3,
and the new $4000 (fully loaded) iMac tops out around 6.8. Even better I
got it for under $900 brand new on ebay. My overclocked, six core 3930K PC
running at 4.7 ghz with 32 GB RAM scores around 13 on max cpu speed, so it
would theoretically take less than three of these mac minis to equal the
workstation CPU output. And a good deal more efficiently, I think
(considering I have much more demanding graphics in the workstation than
the mini). I can see just six minis being a SERIOUS upgrade to render power
in AE / Cinema 4D / Maya / Realflow. Not to mention their extremely small
physical footprint. A personal supercomputer of sorts. I'd be interested in
comparing price / performance to that 32core opteron rig someone is
building.


-- 
Animator & Editor
www.teddygage.com
Brooklyn

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Finally broke down and bought a new mac mini to help do some prores encodin=
g. the specs are 1TB hdd, 2.3 ghz quad core i7, 16 GB RAM, thunderbolt, USB=
 3.0 and FW 800. <br><br>Cinebench 11.5 CPU score was 6.5. That is awesome.=
 My i7 2010 MBP gets 2.3, and the new $4000 (fully loaded) iMac tops out ar=
ound 6.8. Even better I got it for under $900 brand new on ebay. My overclo=
cked, six core 3930K PC running at 4.7 ghz with 32 GB RAM scores around 13 =
on max cpu speed, so it would theoretically take less than three of these m=
ac minis to equal the workstation CPU output. And a good deal more efficien=
tly, I think (considering I have much more demanding graphics in the workst=
ation than the mini). I can see just six minis being a SERIOUS upgrade to r=
ender power in AE / Cinema 4D / Maya / Realflow. Not to mention their extre=
mely small physical footprint. A personal supercomputer of sorts. I&#39;d b=
e interested in comparing price / performance to that 32core opteron rig so=
meone is building. <br>

<br><br>-- <br><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0)">Animator &amp; Editor</span=
><br style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href=3D=
"http://www.teddygage.com" target=3D"_blank">www.teddygage.com</a></span><b=
r style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0)">

<span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0)">Brooklyn</span><br><br>

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