On Friday, January 14, 2005, at 06:42 PM, Anand Keathley wrote:
Also, love the Mini. Great solution for those of us at the lower income scale. Eventually it will bring down the prices of used Macs as well. My pet peeve with the mini; insufficient video RAM. Some modern apps require 64MB RAM and history shows an increasing trend.
What modern (non-game)* apps requires 64MB video ram? More to the point, which of these would you run on a bottom-rank consumer machine?
The issue is largely the mobo design. From the specs, the Mini sounds suspiciously like it uses iBook motherboards, possibly modified. We'll know when those first brave souls get their new Mini and kill the warrantee by ripping it open for all to see. I'd wager the very first mod procedure is how to add more memory.
*If the Mini founders as a 'switcher bait' system, it'll be on the shoals of games, one area where the Mac definitely lags. These are also the apps generating the push for more and more firebreathing video systems.
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