

Is it worth the 600$ investment? Nope.ĭude, thanks but I mean the new mac mini, not the old dual core mobile 28W cpu, but the new which has more powerful CPUs than current iMac, Macbook Pro and other "affordable" macs (literally only iMac pro and Mac pro have better CPUs) So an rx 580 will be overkill but will help. Compared to my much more powerfull desktop I barely notice a difference. On my lenovo yoga 520 I have intel UHD 620 graphics and mx130 graphics and between both the mx130 does help a fair bit with large documents. It's running almost 5 year old tech in there, has no upgradeability and is weaker than most options out there.Įxtremely large documents will lagg when zooming in/out but having a decent cpu and gpu (the curren intel hd will do) helps a good bit. My biggest issue is work with large PDFs where my Adobe Acrobat is just terrible, it takes seconds to zoom in or scroll. Also, I am not going to run into thermal throttling, my workload does not utilize so much CPU and even if, then it is more of burst load, rather than stable heavy load.

Well I will probably go for the mac mini because of the price, so bigger macbook that costs 3x more is not an option. box)? Will it make any noticable improvement in these programs? I work in 4k+fhd setup.ĭepending on the sizes you with your documents it can help however why not go with a macbook that has a dgpu and is a bit larger to be able to have better performance as the inevitable thermal throttling will stay away longer in the bigger macbooks? Does it make sense to buy RX 580 e-GPU (with 600USD price incl. My work is mostly simple photoshop, a little bit complex AI and Adobe reader in such complexity that it does not run smoothly. I am planning to buy mac without dgpu, either new mini, or 13" pro.
