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Mac Mini 1.5 slower than PowerBook 1.5?
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blindemboss
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Oct 27, 2005, 01:31 PM
 
I know one is truly portable while the other is transportable. But the two are miles apart in price yet so close in specs.

The main difference being the video cards. Radeon 9200 32mb on the Mini vs GeForce FX Go5200 64mb on the Powerbook.

Does the smaller dedicated SDRAM make a huge difference for applications such as Illustrator and Photoshop?
     
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Oct 27, 2005, 01:49 PM
 
The GPU and VRAM difference won't make any difference for Photoshop and Illustrator.
The extra RAM you can fit in the PowerBook may help, but as you say the price difference is huge.
     
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Oct 27, 2005, 02:54 PM
 
So compromise go for an iBook or better yet an iMac w/ the G5 will certainly help out in Photoshop
15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz i7 4GB RAM 6490M 120GB OWC 6G SSD 500GB HD
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17" C2D iMac 2.0GHz 2GB RAM x1600 500GB HD
     
   
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