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Makes sense. Thanks for the info.
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garyi
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I just tried that sample with the birds flying on a brand new mini with 1 gig installed (I have 4 in the post)
Suffice to say it was not a pretty sight.
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garyi
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Um that being said I tried this sample with 4gigs on a mini and it was choppy as hell. then I tried it on an iMac 2.8 with 4 gigs of ram and it was choppy as hell. Long and short is I think its a shit sample.
I just took stark off as well, looks nice but its like treacle.
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The sample is bad, but its still a very high bitrate, I think it is like 35mbit.
I don't think memory really matters anyway, not even the additional video memory you get when you're using 2Gb or more in the Mac Mini. It's all about processing power.
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garyi
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Well as I say the iMac may not be the big blue but I feel confident it can handle local sourced high def material, I guess the point is to establish if the mini could handle it. If simply playing it means its handled it then the stock mini with 1 gigi of ram will do fine, and thats streamed from a NAS.
I don't understand the dropped frames thing in the info section, it says on some films dropped 3, or dropped 16 or what ever but that figure never moves, how does it know how many frames its gonna drop?
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anyone else taken the plunge with this new mac mini?