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

[Joe Sporleder]

Except in the original email I said it was a G4 1.25Ghz Mac mini. ATI  
Radeon 9200 with 32MB of video memory. The 1.5Ghz G4 Mac mini has  
64MB of video memory.

Joe

On Jun 9, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:

> 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.