05-07-2013, 11:53 PM
davemchine wrote:
Thanks for the link. It looks like the current mac mini score 11,6xx while my iMac scores 7,731 so that is a significant jump. As the next year passes that gap will probably widen even further.
I went back to the apple website and now I see the firewire 800 port on the mini. That's good news for me as long as they keep it for a little while longer.
I have spent extensive time with the activity monitor. My CPU is slammed when using handbrake of course, transmission can be downloading at 3000KB/sec, and I can be rewriting mkv files to m4v at the same time so the drives are also clanging away. I have 16gb of ram and that's usually half unused. It used to be a "family" computer and we utilized multiple logins but everyone has their own laptop now so nobody ever sits at the iMac. It just does it's job.
Thanks everyone. Looking forward to the SSD. I paid for fast shipping but haven't gotten a shipped notice from OWC yet so I may not get to play with it this week as I leave friday for a sailing course and test.
I have always got OWC orders before I even thought to start to look for them, and ahead of shipping notices-- but I'm fairly closeby. Betcha it comes tomorrow if not today still.