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mcavjame
Mar 15, 2008, 08:07 AM
I just ordered a reurb of the 1.83 Mac Mini. Our current mini has a discrete video card (G4 1.42). Are the kids going to take a performance hit when they want to play games on the new mini? I have ordered two 1 GB 667 SODIMMs to upgrade the unit and to try and compensate for the integrated video card.


DoFoT9
Mar 15, 2008, 08:12 AM
I just ordered a reurb of the 1.83 Mac Mini. Our current mini has a discrete video card (G4 1.42). Are the kids going to take a performance hit when they want to play games on the new mini? I have ordered two 1 GB 667 SODIMMs to upgrade the unit and to try and compensate for the integrated video card.

uumm nope im pretty sure they use the same integrated graphics (GMA950). so no upgrade, the processor might give it a tiny kick, not to sure though

p.s. the extra RAM might help aswell
mcavjame
Mar 15, 2008, 08:18 AM
uumm nope im pretty sure they use the same integrated graphics (GMA950). so no upgrade, the processor might give it a tiny kick, not to sure though

p.s. the extra RAM might help aswell

The original Minis had a 32 MB dedicated video card: ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support. It was actually a selling point at the time as Steve mocked budget PCs with integrated graphics. Then he went to integrated graphics on the next revision.
DoFoT9
Mar 15, 2008, 08:21 AM
The original Minis had a 32 MB dedicated video card: ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support. It was actually a selling point at the time as Steve mocked budget PCs with integrated graphics. Then he went to integrated graphics on the next revision.

ohhhh im sorry i didnt realise you have a G4 mini.

http://www.barefeats.com/mincd.html

well if you check out the game scores, you can see that even the CD mini beats the G4 mini in games by quite a lot.
mcavjame
Mar 15, 2008, 08:27 AM
ohhhh im sorry i didnt realise you have a G4 mini.

http://www.barefeats.com/mincd.html

well if you check out the game scores, you can see that even the CD mini beats the G4 mini in games by quite a lot.

Great resource. Thanks.
DoFoT9
Mar 15, 2008, 08:32 AM
Great resource. Thanks.

no worries mate, i hope you and your kids enjoy your new mini, im really jealous i want one :D.