> Any reason for the Mac Mini over the iMac A zalman monitor ir can you hook up a second monitor in stereo mode to your iMac ?
Jürgen ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://lupo.jhsph.edu On Jan 22, 2013, at 15:13, "Antony Oliver" <antony.oli...@sussex.ac.uk> wrote: > 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.
