Should I get 2.0 quad or 2.7 dual mac mini for photography?

I am eyeing the new mac mini for my digital photography. I am a hobbiest, but shoot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II in raw, so dealing with pretty big raw files. I am currently using both lightroom (on a windows box) and aperture to handle photos. I am thinking I will use aperture on the new mini. I understand that aperture can be gpu intensive, but raw processing is cpu intensive. My question, get the 2.0 quad with integrated graphics, or 2.7 with discreet graphics. Other pluses with the quad are the dual 7200 hdd's, vs single 5400 on the 2.7. Any thoughts, let me know. Thanks.

I think Aperture takes advantage of hardware acceleration, so it will benefit from the discrete graphics on the 799 mini. LR does not. The quad core will benefit LR for sure. I found this an interesting read:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/blog/will-an-ssd-improve-adobe-lightroom-perfor mance/
If only you could get the quad and the discrete graphics in the mini...

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