2011-09-05, 00:39
Ned Scott Wrote:Ah, I see. The newer minis did get a really nice performance jump in this last revision, but for an HTPC you probably would be better off with last year's model since the 2011 version lacks an optical drive.
Thanks Ned. I'm a little less concerned about the lack of optical drive as I've gone fully digital on the viewing end. I have a BluRay drive attached to a desktop PC for ripping BluRays, DVDs and CD and I just share them out to my other machines.
Having said that, what's the best place to get the older gen mac mini? I was just thinking of using kijiji.
Cheers.
Update: I bought the 2011 mac mini with the AMD video card. So far, my 1080p videos run beautifully with somewhere between 15% to 20% cpu usage(for the most part, depending on the movie and the scene). Very happy!