exactly *how* much slower is a core solo on a mac mini?

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I've been offered a 1.5 core solo mini for £300.

I'm more after the superdrive, but the comparative core duo is £340 and a superdrive'd core duo is £419 (on the apple refurb site)

Its not going to be a powerhouse, more a server and media player box.

Or is it possible to upgrade to the superdrive?

 

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I just bought the £420 refurb'd duo

Its basically going to be 75% a hole for my external hard drive to plug into as a NAS drive and 25% general useage (I use my laptop 90% of the time)

So 512MB should do me fine

 

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gaming for me

= red alert 2
= silly flash games
= WoW.

all which run nicely on my windows celeron laptop

 

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burning crusade...