Help Me select Mini

The best Mac Mini to buy is the 2.8ghz Intel Core I7. You will have to order this machine from apple. I would make sure it has the 8gigs of ram and a esata 3 solid state hard drive. go to www.Ultraf.biz and click on the link; Optimization Guide for Apple OS X. Follow the steps and you will be amazed. The 2.5ghz Intel Core I5 does sound good but the I7 sounds better. Do not buy the 2.3ghz, it does not sound all that good and for difference the bigger processors sound better.

I have had all three processors and, the Core I7 sounds the best. Do not use thunderbolt. You will find that a firewire 800 is much more quiet then then thunderbolt. I have played with several thunderbolt drives, and one drive had both thunderbolt and firewire800 and the firewire 800 connection sonically speaking sounded much better. I spoke to several engineers and they told me that the data transfer rate was faster with thunderbolt but that there is a microchip that is on the thunderbolt cable that must be powered and they think that it is interfering with the sound. The guys who mix music on macs are sticking with firewire800 until the sound issues with thunderbolt get worked out.

I have had all three processors and, the Core I7 sounds the best. Do not use thunderbolt. You will find that a firewire 800 is much more quiet then then thunderbolt. I have played with several thunderbolt drives, and one drive had both thunderbolt and firewire800 and the firewire 800 connection sonically speaking sounded much better. I spoke to several engineers and they told me that the data transfer rate was faster with thunderbolt but that there is a microchip that is on the thunderbolt cable that must be powered and they think that it is interfering with the sound. The guys who mix music on macs are sticking with firewire800 until the sound issues with thunderbolt get worked out.