[X4U] Mac mini doesn't like 20" widescreen

[Nick Scalise]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 10:03 PM, David Flory wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:
>
>> Follow up on my own email. Got the "problem Mac mini" to connect  
>> to the Viewsonic wide screen using an Apple DVI to VGA adaptor and  
>> then plugging into the screen's VGA port.
>
> Glad it runs that way but 512M is really squeezing OS X as far as  
> RAM is concerned. It works much better at >= 1 gig of RAM. I think  
> I read that the mini uses RAM instead of a graphics card's RAM,  
> which would make more RAM even more important. Any one else know if  
> I'm remembering the right thing? I think I read this in connection  
> with a discussion of using the Mini for computer gaming.

<http://www.apple.com/macmini/whatsinside.html>
Graphics and Video Support

Intel GMA950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with  
main memory1

1. Memory available to Mac OS X may vary depending on graphics needs.  
Minimum graphics memory usage is 80MB, resulting in 432MB of system  
memory available.

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