You can find great Mac deals here. This place is in Phoenix. http://theapplexchange.com/wp/home/current-inventory/ Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > > recent vintage mac mini with 4 or 8 GB ram, Core i7 or i9, 256 GB or larger HDD/SDD and superdrive. the upper end units can run about $1,000 and are available online, or at the apple store, fry's electronics or best buy. > > these are reasonably powerful units that don't use a lot of juice. > > hopefully, this helps. > > -eric > from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Sales and hardware support > >> On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >> >> It is time to upgrade my daughter's 2009 Macbook Pro. She does not need the portability of a laptop as she uses her iPad for that. He home use is not that demanding, except that she loves to edit her diving and vacation movies. She could use a Mac mini, as she has a 23" monitor, apple keyboard, and apple mouse. However, I am not sure there is enough RAM and horsepower in a Mac mini, so I have been looking at iMacs as well. >> >> My assumptions are she needs at least 16 GB of RAM and a quad core i7 for serious video editing (around an hour of 1080p 60 Hz. video when rendered). Which puts us up around $1400+. Are my assumptions correct, or off base? What should we be looking at? >> >> She was a Linux user when she was younger, but then they grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and think they know everything....;) (she ditched Linux in college) >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss