2011-07-23, 16:37
I had purchased the 2010 macmini model with the nvidia 320m and it ran pretty damn good. It could play the infamous bird scene from planet earth without and dropped frames and with the CPU hovering around 50-60%. I exchanged it yesterday for the new 2011 base model (with intel 3000 gfx) and regret it now. I played the same scene from planet earth and it hit 160% CPU with constant frame drops. I even tried the latest nightly build of xbmc hoping it was a bug and it still performed poorly. So far its not looking good (at least for the base 2011 model with intel gfx). I will probably return it and go for the 2010.