Are the mac minis powerful enough?

Ol!ver · 16 Jan 2008 at 22:40

I'm contemplating giving macs another go, so looking at a mac mini. My question is, how usable are they? Are they powerful enough? I'm currently using an overclocked E6600 and 2GB of RAM.

Cheers.

Ol!ver · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:00

WotDa said:
That'd depend on what you want to use it for.

Usual surfing etc. Currently encode stuff to wmv for viewing through the 360 too.

Ol!ver · 17 Jan 2008 at 09:25

WotDa said:
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360

Go blag yourself a HE discount and laugh.

Oooh, so with that I could stream HD movies/tv shows etc?

Would the mini be ok for boot camp with Vista too?

Ol!ver · 17 Jan 2008 at 12:43

WotDa said:
It seems to be able to do that, aye. And if the wireless adapter on my 360 worked I'd give it a test.

Certainly should be, I've seen laptops with less specs running Home Premium with Aero fine, just seems a bit ram hungry, and with that being so cheap now that's nearly a moot point.

Cheers. I'm just concerned about moving from a very fast pc to a seamingly inferior spec mac. Suspect OSX helps with that. My old G5 iMac got sold because it was too sluggish though.