[mythtv-users] myth front end on new mac mini core 2 duo?

Scott D. Davilla davilla at 4pi.com
Thu Mar 19 22:41:11 UTC 2009


>On 20/3/09 10:39 AM, Damian Haslam wrote:
>>David Miller wrote:
>>>Damian Haslam wrote on 3/17/09 11:44 PM:
>>>>Does anyone have an direct experience (or know someone/URL) of
>>>>getting one
>>>>of the new Mac Mini (upper model - the one with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
>>>>with 256MB of shared DDR3 SDRAM) working with the OS X mythfrontend ?
>>>FWIW, I put 4GB of RAM into mine (after receiving it, since Apple
>>>charges too much to have them do it), and after the RAM upgrade, the
>>>nvidia config utility reports 512MB of VRAM.
>>>It certainly seems nice and speedy.
>>
>>That's interesting - in .au our options for the mini are 2.0 GHz, with
>>either 120Gb HDD or 320Gb HDD. They also differ on the video - the cheap
>>one has NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 128MB of shared DDR3 SDRAM and the
>>expensive one has 256MB. THe System memory likewise is 1Gb, and 2Gb.
>>
>>So, if I get the cheap one, and upgrade the RAM to 4Gb, I'll effectively
>>have exactly the same as the expensive one, but cheaper? I'm no HW
>>expert (clearly) but the VRAM thing seems related to the system memory?
>>
>>The "expensive" one is au$1400, the "cheap" one is $1049 - obviously
>>quite a large difference, but is it really justified hardware-wise?
>
>The official apple specs say that it uses 128MB of system RAM per 
>1GB installed, upto a maximum of 256MB. So if your machine has 1GB 
>installed, then 128MB is reserved for the GPU, 2GB installed 
>reserves 256MB, 4GB installed should only be 256MB as well, but as 
>David wrote he sees 512MB.

That would be because he's running a linux distro and not OSX. 
"nvidia config utility reports" is the hint :)


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