<div dir="ltr">You can compare the CPU ratings of your current machine vs the ratings for the currently available i5 and i7 models of the mac mini here: <a href="https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-5287U-vs-Intel-i5-8500B-vs-Intel-i7-8700B/2575vs3382vs3388">https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-5287U-vs-Intel-i5-8500B-vs-Intel-i7-8700B/2575vs3382vs3388</a><div><br></div><div>Additional memory (16gb or 32gb) may also help. You could potentially attach a fast nvme drive to the thunderbolt 3 port (you can't upgrade the SSD on the latest generation of mac minis as they are soldered to the logic board).</div><div><br></div><div>I would highly recommend profiling where the bottleneck / performance issues are occurring. Tools such as activity monitor, instruments and sample can provide more insight. See <a href="https://gist.github.com/loderunner/36724cc9ee8db66db305">https://gist.github.com/loderunner/36724cc9ee8db66db305</a> for some suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Donal</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 15:04, RMG <<a href="mailto:reikogoodwin@gmail.com">reikogoodwin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Donal and list,</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Many thanks for asking. Below is the info:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Model Name: MacBook Pro</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Processor Name: Intel Core i5</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Number of Processors: 1</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Total Number of Cores: 2</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>L3 Cache: 3 MB</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Memory: 8 GB</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Boot ROM Version: 192.0.0.0.0</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>SMC Version (system): 2.28f7</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Apple SSD Controller:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Vendor: Apple</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Product: SSD Controller</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Physical Interconnect: PCI</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Link Width: x4</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">APPLE SSD SM0512G:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Capacity: 500.28 GB (500,277,790,720 bytes)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Model: APPLE SSD SM0512G<span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Revision: BXW1SA0Q</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Native Command Queuing: Yes</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Queue Depth: 32</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Removable Media: No</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Detachable Drive: No</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>BSD Name: disk0</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Medium Type: Solid State</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>TRIM Support: Yes</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Best wishes,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#888888">Reiko Matsuda Goodwin</font></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ComoeMonkeyProject/" target="_blank">Comoé Monkey Project</a><br></div><div><a href="http://facebook.com/GuenonConservationCommunity/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Guenon Conservation Community</a></div></div><div><font color="#888888"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-size:12px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:05 AM Donal Hunt <<a href="mailto:donal.hunt@gmail.com" target="_blank">donal.hunt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Can you provide the following information from the command line (run these commands and paste the output):<div><br></div><div><pre style="font-family:Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:0.88em;margin:1em auto;overflow-x:auto;border-radius:0px;line-height:1.2;word-break:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;border-radius:0px;color:rgb(122,122,122);line-height:1.2;background-color:transparent"><b>$</b> system_profiler SPHardwareDataType</code></pre><pre style="font-family:Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:0.88em;margin:1em auto;overflow-x:auto;border-radius:0px;line-height:1.2;word-break:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;border-radius:0px;color:rgb(122,122,122);line-height:1.2;background-color:transparent"><br></code></pre><pre style="font-family:Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:0.88em;margin:1em auto;overflow-x:auto;border-radius:0px;line-height:1.2;word-break:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;border-radius:0px;color:rgb(122,122,122);line-height:1.2;background-color:transparent"><b>$</b> system_profiler -detailLevel mini SPSerialATADataType SPParallelATADataType</code></pre></div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font face="monospace" color="#999999"></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><i>* you may want to remove/redact the "Serial Number (system)" and "Hardware UUID" values before emailing.</i></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px">That will provide some information on your existing system and disks which will make it easier to determine what appropriate replacements are needed. Normally, I would look at CPU performance, amount of RAM and disk speeds (HDD vs SSD vs NVMe makes a huge difference).</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Hope that helps!</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Donal</p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 02:00, RMG <<a href="mailto:reikogoodwin@gmail.com" target="_blank">reikogoodwin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> Hello QGIS users on Macs,<div><br></div><div>I would like advice on purchasing a new Mac. My Mac is 5 years old and cannot handle heavy-duty QGIS procedures. I process many satellite images and some vector files with 30 m grids have millions of features, for example. To process anything is taking too long. I know there has been a discussion on ARMS hardware, but that seems a few years away. So right now, what would you recommend? I plan to partition the hard drive to handle ArcGIS as well. I do not think I can afford a dream machine like Mac Pro, though. Is a Mac mini something that you guys use and recommend?</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#888888">Reiko Matsuda Goodwin</font></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ComoeMonkeyProject/" target="_blank">Comoé Monkey Project</a><br></div><div><a href="http://facebook.com/GuenonConservationCommunity/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Guenon Conservation Community</a></div></div><div><font color="#888888"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-size:12px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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