[ydl-gen] RFO: Mac Mini or G5 iMac

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:32:03 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:

> Just my $0.02:
> 
> You didn't mention what version of MacOS you run under MOL, if it's OS-X 
> you *definitely* want more than the stock 256MB. of RAM that the Mini 
> comes with. Even running straight OS-X, 256MB. is insufficient. The 
> problem with the Mini is that it has only one internal DIMM slot, so 
> upgrading later means you must throw away the module already installed 
> (unless you have another use for it), they are also not the easiest 
> units in the world to get inside of (although compared to an iBook they 
> are not too bad).

It makes very little difference how much RAM the machine physically has
when it comes to MOL, because MOL can tell OSX to use far more RAM than
the machine has, through the miracle of swap space.