Ghostkiller Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Hey, this is my first post here (hooray! :D ) A friend of mine once showed me a cool program called Affinity Designer. I was so amazed how much easier it was to use than Adobe Illustrator. It was so smooth and just wonderful in every way. So I thought about getting it for myself. The problem is, I'm a Windows user. But this program seems so good that it's worth getting a Mac for myself. I was wondering will Mac Mini run this smoothly? (Late 2009) And would adding 2gb more RAM help? There would be a nice offer on a local site here, used one for 200€. And I don't know anything about Macs so... Here are the specs of it: Processor: 2,26 GHz Intel Core 2 DuoRAM: 2 GTHard drive: 160GbGraphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400, 256 MtSuperDrive DVD-driveModel: Late 2009- Bought : 4.3.2010 It'd come with Snow Leopard installation disk, but it has preinstalled Yosemite 10.10.1. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 19, 2015 I´m running Affinity Designer on a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook (late 2008), 8 GB 1067 MHZ DDR3, Geforce 9400M 256MB, and a Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256 GB.So the config you described would run it, but adding more 2GB RAM would certainly help a little. The minimum system requirements are: - Intel processor with 64-bit support.- Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5) and above.- 2GB RAM- 325MB of available hard-disk space- 1280 x 768 display Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Fingers crossed, but as a guess (that's all it is) you should be alright. As a long term DrawPlus user (Windows only) AD has done the hardest thing possible and got away with it: DrawPlus on the Mac AKA Affinity designer. :D :D :D :D :D , as MEB says...More RAM is always better. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostkiller Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Thanks for the responses guys! I will probably buy this mini mac. Which operating system would be best? Is Yosemite too heavy for it, what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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