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How much memory is enough for Mac Mini?
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 75640" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>With the stock 256 Megs it would be fine for just using Mail and maybe Safari but if you try to multitask with more than one application running it will start swapping to the HDD and make things slow way down. Like James said, 512 apears to be a sweet spot and would be fine for most usage with many programs running. If you intend to do large jobs like Video Editing and such I would go all the way to 1Gig RAM. 512Megs will be fine though for most users even if they run several normal everyday apps at once. I used my G4 for a while with Panther and 512 and it was pretty snappy till I started doing editing of large audio and Video files then I upped it to 1.5 Gigs for the crazy stuff I do!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 75640, member: 8287"] With the stock 256 Megs it would be fine for just using Mail and maybe Safari but if you try to multitask with more than one application running it will start swapping to the HDD and make things slow way down. Like James said, 512 apears to be a sweet spot and would be fine for most usage with many programs running. If you intend to do large jobs like Video Editing and such I would go all the way to 1Gig RAM. 512Megs will be fine though for most users even if they run several normal everyday apps at once. I used my G4 for a while with Panther and 512 and it was pretty snappy till I started doing editing of large audio and Video files then I upped it to 1.5 Gigs for the crazy stuff I do! [/QUOTE]
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