richieg said:What do you think about the argument of getting the 1.25 machine over the 1.42. Do you think it makes much difference for things like photoshop or handling movies or PDFs? Is it worth going the extra bit?
ped said:Is 512MB enough or is 1GB needed? I'm talking about for normal usage, not massive photoshop stuff. How much do you need to keep the Mac from hitting swap?
richieg said:What do you think about the argument of getting the 1.25 machine over the 1.42. Do you think it makes much difference for things like photoshop or handling movies or PDFs? Is it worth going the extra bit?
James said:According to tests i have seen, 512 seems to be the sweet spot for the mini. 256 is not enough and you will find it running a bit laggy if you try and multitask much, but it seems to smooth out and run fine with 512. So unless you plan on doing video editing and such i would go with the 512 for every day normal type usage. With 256 the mini has to do to much swaping and that will certainly slow it down.
I know when i brought my wifes iMac G5 home it only had 256 in it and i could see a difference, but when i added another 512 it smoothed right out and runs very well.
Besides the faster processor the only difference is the hard disk size. Given that the 1.42 is slightly faster and has double the HD space it seems to be worth the extra $$$.richieg said:What do you think about the argument of getting the 1.25 machine over the 1.42. Do you think it makes much difference for things like photoshop or handling movies or PDFs? Is it worth going the extra bit?
Don't buy the ram too cheap its best to stick to makes like Kingston.JohnWasHere said:I have 256 and it def. does lag when I have a few apps open.. What kind of RAM should I buy for this and where can I get it for the cheapest? I really wanna upgrade to 512. Any good online stores runing specials?
Mr Bobbins said:Don't buy the ram too cheap its best to stick to makes like Kingston.
ped said:Followup report - the Mac mini is running much better with 512 than with 256. No surprise there, of course. What's of note is that 512 appears to be "enough" as we all suspected. It rarely taps into all available memory, even under the heaviest loads I've thrown at it (so far).
JohnWasHere said:Awesome. Where did you get your 512 ram? I wanna get some but dont know where to buy from and what to look for. Please help!