[Helmling]

Let's say, "How would this Mini do tryign to run Doom3?"

Gosh, I wish they'd give us a high-end alternative here, but I understand Apple's a small player in the market and has to keep the number variants down to control costs and focus their market share. Still, I can't help but feel a little bit of the old "Why Don't You Make the Exact Machine I Want!?!" here.

I'm holding out for a Blu-Ray, HD-capable Mini...or at least, I'm going to try to hold out.

[mduell]

Originally Posted by Helmling

Let's say, "How would this Mini do tryign to run Doom3?"

Gosh, I wish they'd give us a high-end alternative here, but I understand Apple's a small player in the market and has to keep the number variants down to control costs and focus their market share. Still, I can't help but feel a little bit of the old "Why Don't You Make the Exact Machine I Want!?!" here.

I'm holding out for a Blu-Ray, HD-capable Mini...or at least, I'm going to try to hold out.

Not well (espically since the OSX port is slower). Less demanding games like UT2004 and Quake 3 should be fine.

Due to cost and heat reasons, any high-end GPU with dedicated VRAM is out.

This mini is HD capable; Core Solo is good for 720p and Core Duo for 1080p.

[Helmling]

I mean HD TV.

[quiklee]

i want to play the shows I have saved in divx format . . . . . do you think the new bonjour feature on frontrow will be able to handle this quality of content . . .each video is about 350MB big and 720px . . . .

[Rumz]

My bet is that front row will be picky about file formats like it already is. You'd need to convert those to regular mp4 or h.264... give http://www.isquint.org/ a whirl.

[quiklee]

how bout if they play on my frontrow on my iMac right now . . . does that mean they're ok?

[mduell]

Originally Posted by Helmling

I mean HD TV.

Many HD TVs have DVI or VGA input (both of which the minis support).