Mini Mac

[Aenslead]

Originally posted by: w9design
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I run 1600x1200x32 on my Mac Mini with no lag, and no slowdown; I'm not sure what you're talking about in terms of lag. I just recently threw a WD1600JB into a FireWire enclosure and have been booting off of that; the hard drive boost is a big performance jump.

Wow!! you are booting from firewire to your system? Interesting.

 

[Dennis Travis]

Originally posted by: Aenslead

Originally posted by: w9design
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I run 1600x1200x32 on my Mac Mini with no lag, and no slowdown; I'm not sure what you're talking about in terms of lag. I just recently threw a WD1600JB into a FireWire enclosure and have been booting off of that; the hard drive boost is a big performance jump.

Wow!! you are booting from firewire to your system? Interesting.

Macs have booted off Firewire drives now for a long time. Since the Mini's drive is a Lower RPM Laptop drive, A good Firewire external will be much faster. I am doing the same thign as he is, running 7200RPM Seagate 8-Meg Cache drive in a external Firewire enclosure. Makes a big difference in boot time and application launch speed.

Sometime this summer the new 100GB Seagate Momentus 7200 2.5" Drive is suppsoed to be out. I will be getting that drive for the Mini so I have have a fast drive internal.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU

Originally posted by: Mags

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
You are gonna be limited to resolutions less than 1280x1024

Hmmm... the mini supports resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 pixels AFAIK.

Supports but it will be laggy

Not true.. While I have hit a slight bit of lag in Tiger ( not it panther ) overall it's awesome..

I have used the Mini w/256 on the 23" and it was just fine.


I have the 1.25 with a gig o'ram and it runs well.

Hoping the updates for tiger fix my slight lag isses.

hardcore "I can't get laid" style gaming

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