Anyone have experience with a setup like this?
My plan is that have my newsreader auto-download and extract, into a front-end like XBMC or Plex. Then the other TVs in my house would have jailbroken AppleTVs or a Roku box running an XBMC or Plex viewer.
The Mac mini would be primarily connected to my basement "man cave" TV. I'll watch movies from it, but it won't be used as an everyday computer. We already have MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in the house for that.
If anyone has done something like this, how is the performance? Would you recommend dual-core? quad-core? I have 8GB of 1600MHz RAM to throw in and will probably bump up the drive to a 90GB SSD and 750 or 1TB 7200RPM media drive (these are parts I have lying around from past upgrades).
Just looking for some direction when it comes to the processor. Could potentially need to stream a TV show or movie to an AppleTV while watching a movie on the Mac mini itself, is that possible?
My plan is that have my newsreader auto-download and extract, into a front-end like XBMC or Plex. Then the other TVs in my house would have jailbroken AppleTVs or a Roku box running an XBMC or Plex viewer.
The Mac mini would be primarily connected to my basement "man cave" TV. I'll watch movies from it, but it won't be used as an everyday computer. We already have MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in the house for that.
If anyone has done something like this, how is the performance? Would you recommend dual-core? quad-core? I have 8GB of 1600MHz RAM to throw in and will probably bump up the drive to a 90GB SSD and 750 or 1TB 7200RPM media drive (these are parts I have lying around from past upgrades).
Just looking for some direction when it comes to the processor. Could potentially need to stream a TV show or movie to an AppleTV while watching a movie on the Mac mini itself, is that possible?