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" <c.vaug...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
