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1. 8GB OR 16GB RAM FOR MAC MINI PRO
2. 8GB OR 16GB RAM FOR MAC MINI PROFESSIONAL

I purchased the 1 TB Thunderbolt 3 NVMe combo from OWC (OWC Envoy Express & 1 TB OWC Aura P12 M.2 NVME) with $23 off the combo.Īs to whether it will meet your needs, I can only say this setup more than meets my needs. I had concerns about the 8 GB RAM being enough, but it's hasn't been an issue - at all.Ģ. I'm also using Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, & Gigapixel AI.ġ. Trying to decide between the two but leaning towards Affinity Photo.

8GB OR 16GB RAM FOR MAC MINI PRO

I had been hoping to wait for the next generation of Apple Silicon but had to get the base mini since that is what was in stock.įor photo editing I'm using Affinity Photo & Pixelmator Pro (had AP & PixelMator Pro was a $20 upgrade). I also have several regular hard drives for archiving & backup (rotating with off-site). I'm retired also & I'm using an M1 Mac Mini 8/256 with a 1 TB NVMe SSD via Thunderbolt 3, having come from a 2008 8-core Mac Pro 16 GB RAM 500 GB SSD (which finally gave up the ghost). Moreover I'm used to carrying external SSDs and HDDs around. My photo library is already about 450GB and it's growing so it wouldn't fit into a 512GB internal drive.1TB would be a minimum anyway. As you might not want to take the USB drive with you everywhere you go and 256GB would probably be very limiting. Will work out cheaper than buying an external drive and probably be faster too.Įdit: Although if you are talking about a laptop here, even with an external drive, I wouldn't get one with less than 500GB SSD internal. Then look for an M.2 NVME SSD which is faster than 1000Mbyte/s (the max speed of USB-C).

8GB OR 16GB RAM FOR MAC MINI PROFESSIONAL

I don't do extremely demanding work such as video or music and I don't do it for professional purposes. On an external SSD, I would recommend getting a USB-C NVME M.2 enclosure/caddy from Amazon, like this:Īs of now I don't have M.2 SSDs, only old school 500GB SSDs. I use neither Photos neither LR but softs that don't rely on a proprietary catalog: DxO PL and Adobe Bridge. Then manually copy the library file from your old Mac to your external SSD, like this guide here: When transferring data from your old Mac, you will just need to make sure you don't transfer the photos initially (can unselect in the transfer tool).