OT: Any Mac Geniuses on the List who can advise on a Mac for Christmas?

[Eric Oyen]

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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