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Mac mini with a real 3D card?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
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This might be old hat around here, so pardon me if this is a stupid question, but is there a way to upgrade a Mac mini to have a decent video card? I'd love to have a living room Mac like that but I'd want it to be able to game. A top of the line Mac mini with a 256 Mb video card would suit my needs just dandy.
Anyone heard of such a thing and what does it take?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
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No, there is no way to upgrade the video card. There is no room for an additional card and no slot for the card.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
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I thought maybe somebody had gotten creative after a comment I read somewhere else, but now I realize they were talking about the old G4 mini's which were burdened with the Intel chipsets. Oh well.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Old G4 minis Intel chipsets? Huh? Oh, you mean which "weren't burdened with the Intel chipsets." Yeah, it's definitely too bad that there's no mini with a real GPU and even worse that you are forced to buy a MP to get a headless Mac with a GPU. Oh well.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Apple TV has a real 3D card (nVidia 7300GT) and runs OS X too! It probably has comparable performance to a PPC mini.
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MacBook Pro T2500/1.5GB/100GB/256MB iPod 20GB B&W Mac mini 1.25/256MB/40GB/32MB Dell 2.66/2GB/80GB/Intel Extreme Gfx
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London, UK
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shame no one makes an external firewire graphics card
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London, UK
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
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I think the USB 2.0 part is only for the sound etc, an express card slot is needed for the graphics.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Ah, damn. Should have known it was too good to be true
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Yep. I would have bought a mini with a good graphics card too, but instead I settled on the 24" iMac with 7600GT. Shame. I coulda got a bigger screen otherwise, that maybe had inputs so I could actually USE my PS2.
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