• Adobe After Effects

  Is anyone using a Mac Mini?

  Posted by Paul Campbell on November 12, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  Hi. My ongoing quest for a decent practice Mac continues. I’m considering a 1.83Ghz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini on which to run AE 6.5, and I’m wondering if anyone has had any success with such a configuration. I was considering an old PowerMac with a PowerPC G5 processor, but I was told the Mini would work better. I have no reason to doubt this, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask if anyone has tried running AE on a Mini and what your opinions were.

  Thanks.

  Kevin O’neill replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kevin O’neill

  November 14, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  I work with a digital signage company and animate with AE CS3 on 2 systems:

  – a 2GHz intel core 2 duo mac mini with 2gb ram
  – a dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 with 5.5gb ram

  While I haven’t done any specific benchmark tests, I’ve found that on average the mini renders about 1/3 faster than the G5. The only downside for me being the lack of support for a secondary monitor, but otherwise its been a powerful enough system to do what is needed, and does so more efficiently than a PowerPC with twice the ram.

  hope that helps

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