Mac Mini Question

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Sorry for the stupid question, but I just want to make sure:

How well does Unity iPhone run on a Mac Mini? I’m just about to purchase one(brand new), and I want to make sure everything will run great. Along with XCode and 3D programs.

Thanks!

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the new mac minis are pretty strong (no comparision to the first ones for example), it will run all fine :slight_smile:

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Alright thanks a bunch man.

Ordering it later today straight from Apple. :slight_smile:

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i work on mac mini, everything works fine…

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I’ve had mine for close to 2 years and it runs just fine. I did max out the memory after I bought it but that is the only thing I recommend.

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Yea definitely. Once I make some money releasing games and apps, I’ll upgrade to the full 8GB allowed.

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if you buy Kingston Mac focused ones, you can get them at a fraction of Apples lose of reality pricing fantasies ^^(thats how my MacBook Pro got to its max of 4gb)

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i’ve done all my unity iphone dev on a mini; runs just fine. the only thing that hurts a bit is compiling large projects with additional libraries such as OpenFeint in XCode. A fancy new quad-core i7 iMac makes seconds of work out of what was 4-5 minutes for the core2duo mac mini.

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I have run into an error for regular unity on the platform tutorial about sub shaders or something not supported by the mac minis graphics card . No errors for iphone development.

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potentially you have a first generation one with the intel gpu. in that case yeah thats very well possible, that one was also not able to calculate occlusion culling in unity iphone 1.x

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There isn’t “the” Mac mini graphics card; there have been a number of different models with different graphics. The latest one is reasonably capable for an integrated chip.

–Eric

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For regular Unity I will be using my regular computer. It’s a quad-core computer I recently built so there will be no problems.

:wink:

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i work with a mac mini (9400m video card) and it does the job fine

but to be honest by the time you get a decent keyboard/mouse/screen you would have spent almost enough to get a mac book with a 9400m or better card

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I didn’t need a screen/keyboard/mouse though…so it was perfect.

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Using a Mini with 2G ram, no problems :smile: