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Mini Mac Performance
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Steveir
Hagukure
#1 - 2011-12-16 11:42:28 UTC
Hi, I just bought a new Mini Mac, and I can't say I'm bowled over with the performance.
First I tried the cheaper one, as I didn't realise that there was different graphic chips in it. I really don't recommend that one at all, even the general display was less than impressive.
The better specced one, 4Gb of memory, runs Eve; but slightly less faster than my current 3 year old PC (which admittedly was a gaming rig). Eve is playable, and Magic tracker pad makes right clicking a joy to use.
As I say, I had hoped that this Mac would be better than my PC, and it isn't. Plan B is to use this as my second account and use a new laptop for the main account. Is it worth trying a Mac laptop, or is the performance around the same?

Thanks in advance for your replies :)
ariana ailith
Dukalin
#2 - 2012-01-16 10:06:42 UTC
So you're comparing a minimalistic mac mini with onboard video and little ram with a gaming pc?

Meh...

That's like comparing a motorbike to a car and wondering where the trunk is.
Ian Grimshaw
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-01-16 14:44:03 UTC
Steveir wrote:
Hi, I just bought a new Mini Mac, and I can't say I'm bowled over with the performance.
First I tried the cheaper one, as I didn't realise that there was different graphic chips in it. I really don't recommend that one at all, even the general display was less than impressive.
The better specced one, 4Gb of memory, runs Eve; but slightly less faster than my current 3 year old PC (which admittedly was a gaming rig). Eve is playable, and Magic tracker pad makes right clicking a joy to use.
As I say, I had hoped that this Mac would be better than my PC, and it isn't. Plan B is to use this as my second account and use a new laptop for the main account. Is it worth trying a Mac laptop, or is the performance around the same?

Thanks in advance for your replies :)


I confirm that on late-2011 MacBook Pro performance is ok (while it has integrated Intel graphics, so you can disregared previous poster), when client is stable. It isn't overall stable though, but that should be a question to CCP, not to Apple or Intel. Funnily enough, when on running Windows EVE client on Parallels, performance won't degrade at all (if you have enough free RAM), but client won't freeze.
ariana ailith
Dukalin
#4 - 2012-01-17 09:05:37 UTC
Ian Grimshaw wrote:
I confirm that on late-2011 MacBook Pro performance is ok (while it has integrated Intel graphics, so you can disregared previous poster), when client is stable. It isn't overall stable though, but that should be a question to CCP, not to Apple or Intel. Funnily enough, when on running Windows EVE client on Parallels, performance won't degrade at all (if you have enough free RAM), but client won't freeze.


Not saying its not playable... I have a 2009 macbook pro that runs eve on a 9400M chipset. But it's not pretty and i certainly am not silly enough to compare that performance to my gaming PC. Simply because its not the same kind of computer. Not even close.