The $499 imac mini

[samsc]

a 23inch display is going to beat the crap out of a 32mb 9200 chip.
these things dont have much graphics woomph.

you need to try something more normal like 800x600

4200rpm laptop drives arent great either.
they have crappy latency, and they stop and take a break every 30secs.
there might also be sleep settings that need to be changed.
also running content from the same drive as the os drive causes dreadful problems even on a g5

and you might need quite a bit of memory between 512mb and 1gb to keep down virtual memory cacheing,

[peppe]

I will get back a 17" monitor soon, and I will give it a serious try!
You bringing me hope, maybe it can work?! We will see!

I keep you updated with this.Will check dv & my standard Mjpg codecs on
same material on it.

PS. I have 512Mb and will connect it to a FW drive (the one we used last time in Istanbul) but going on FW400.

[samsc]

try at a low resolution 800x600 and work upwards.
your firewire drives will give a better idea of the performance you should expect.

[peppe]

Test 2:
With a 17" screen and a 400FW disc (LaCie extreme) it can play (express)
2 layers fine (24-25fps) rocksteady!!
800x600

This is cool, seems to work for small installations.

[Spam Butterfly]

You could get 10 of them for $5000 odd and build a render farm for Cinema 4D...

Hugh

[peppe]

You could get 10 of them for $5000 odd and build a render farm for Cinema 4D...

Hugh

That would be handy for C4, but the G4 is about 8 times slower then a G5 2x2Ghz
in render times and have more problems with some plugins.
We made some serious test with mixed renderfarm G4,G5´s and we see a major improvement with the G5,and for the release9 of C4.
I had Minimac´s in my mind for Kiev gigg, but I will go for that with G5´s.

[samsc]

the best playback would be putting a sata raptor drive in a fw400 case.
i think thats just about possible.

[samsc]

Test 2:
With a 17" screen and a 400FW disc (LaCie extreme) it can play (express)
2 layers fine (24-25fps) rocksteady!!
800x600

This is cool, seems to work for small installations.

cool - thats great.

[samsc]

My mac mini arrived.

No problems. Everything seems to work.
Dont have time to run any benchmarks