[mythtv-users] Re: New Mac Mini

[Mike Frisch]

On 12-Jan-05, at 10:33 AM, Justin Kim wrote:

> At 6:42 PM -0500 1/11/05, Magnus Meinfretr wrote:
>
>> What you forget is this is a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4.  This is not a
>> Pentium 4 or an Athlon.  Don't fall into the mental trap of thinking
>> the GHz ratings even compare.
>>
>> This is probably (conservatively) at least as fast as a 2GHz Pentium 4
>> for all intents and purposes.  Any code that makes good use of the
>> Altivec instructions could very well be beyond current x86 performance
>> potential.
>
>    I don't know about that.  It's not just the processor.  The mini
> has a rather slow 167MHz bus, so I'd guess most 2GHz P4 desktop
> systems would be considerably faster in most tasks.  The mini is
> probably more than sufficient for email, web, and Sims/Quake 3 level
> games, but I wouldn't buy it to do anything processor-intensive.
>

As a Mac user, I would agree the 2GHz is *much* faster for most tasks.  
Don't get me wrong, I am sure the Mini Mac would make a great standard 
defintion MythTV frontend and probably do other HTPC related tasks, but 
a powerhouse, it is not.

Mike.