You can find great Mac deals here. This place is in Phoenix.
http://theapplexchange.com/wp/home/current-inventory/
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> On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@icloud.com> 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
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