Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
CraigE wrote:
Looking at the processor spec, the mac mini is almost certainly a 32MB VRAM model.
Just watched a youtube video with a guy pushing it to the limit until music starts stuttering.. With my main aim just playing old amiga games on dedicated hardware, am I going to be OK?
Just try it out, you can use it for 30 minutes before it slows down, and rebooting is really quick.
Initially, I ran it on a 733 MHz G4 Quicksilver PowerMac that I eventually upgraded to 933, then 1 GHz.
And now I've backed down from a G5 to an MDD G4.
The 32MB of vram on the Mac Mini is not THAT big a problem. Its the same amount of vram I have in my iBook, and that runs fine.
For initial experimentation, your Mac Mini is fine.
The others here are just questioning it because most of us are using video cards with at least 128MB of memory.
Your processor is actually quite a bit faster than my first systems (and they were entirely adequate).
However, if you like it, you might want a G4 or G5 PowerMac (or even a PowerBook, one with 64MB of vram) when you register instead.
It will be more satisfying as a long term acquisition.
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