<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You can find great Mac deals here. This place is in Phoenix. <div><br></div><div><a href="http://theapplexchange.com/wp/home/current-inventory/">http://theapplexchange.com/wp/home/current-inventory/</a><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>these are reasonably powerful units that don't use a lot of juice.</span><br><span></span><br><span>hopefully, this helps.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-eric</span><br><span>from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Sales and hardware support</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>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. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Mark</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>---------------------------------------------------</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>---------------------------------------------------</span><br><span>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a></span><br><span>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:</span><br><span><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></span></div></blockquote></div></body></html>