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Thinking of changing to Mac Mini - Luvas uk - 2011-08-03
Just wanted some people’s opinions as I am thinking of changing my Acer Revo 3610 to a Mac Mini, not sure which version of Mac Mini.
Wanted to know if I would see any really difference in performance.
The Acer Revo works well apart from i do get pixilation from time to time and choppy frames but only for a few seconds. This only happens maybe 3 or 4 times in a film.
The Mac Mini would be reading mkv files from my Un-raid server over a gigabit network.
- reec - 2011-08-04
What OS would you be running?
- Luvas uk - 2011-08-04
reec Wrote:What OS would you be running?
Not sure yet.
Is there a version i should be leaning towards?
Also guess it depends what Mac Mini i get.
- Luvas uk - 2011-08-04
Bit more info.
The 2 Mac Minis i am looking at is either the
MC270B/A - Intel Core 2 Duo, 320GB, 2GB Memory
or
The new 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 2GB memory ,500GB hard drive,
Intel HD Graphics 3000, OS X Lion
I can get the Older Mac mini cheaper of course so am i going to see any really perfomance improvements between the 2.
All its going to be doing is Streaming 1080p MKV files from my Un-raid server and plugged in VIA HDMI to my Amp with DTS or DD. Have not used DTS-HD or DD-HD yet.
- reec - 2011-08-04
I'm sure both of them would handle 1080p fine. But you should know there's no support fort automatic refresh rate switching for XBMC (or Plex) in OSX.
- lehite - 2011-08-04
Either would do the job just fine.