MAC Mini - 1920*1200 - does it struggle?

Conrad11 · 30 Mar 2009 at 16:48

Hi there,

I was wondering whether people found the MAC Mini's that have a GMA950 or a X3100 graphics chip in them struggle at the resolution of 1920*1200?

I would have thought with all the animations and fancy things that MAC does that an old graphics chip like that would struggle and make it look laggy when opening/maximizing/minimizing window.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks.

geekyEd · 30 Mar 2009 at 16:56

Mine was perfectly fine played 1080p movies and everything. (GMA950)

That was with a 2.33GHz C2D though, was perfectly fine at 1680x1050 with the old 1.6 dual core that it came with as standard. Probably would have handled 1920x1200 but didnt test it.

So my thoughts are..... load of **** dont worry about it.

Combat squirrel · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:31

I have the original core duo (2ghz, 2gb ram) with 950 intel, and it runs 1920x1200 easy, plays HD easy as well, more than fast enough for non gaming use.

Spyhop · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:34

Isn't this the benefit of Apple controlling the hardware?

They wouldn't let you select 1920x1200 if it couldn't even run the desktop environment at that resolution.