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Cheap Mac to play HD Quicktime - Mr645 - 05-25-2007
Currently I am using a 466mhz G4 to feed regular DVD video, stored as hundreds of Disk Images to a projector and over a network to various Macs around the office to slow clients.
Were now shooting everything in 1080i and will generate WMV or Quicktime files. The 466 G4 valiantly gives us 3-4 fps with our test 1920x1080 Quicktime files fed to our new projector, also naitve 1920x1080.
Now, can I get by with a Mac Mini? 17" iMac 2.0 Core2Duo?
How about an older dual CPU G5? I have some dual 1.8 PM G5's in the office.
Jon
Re: Cheap Mac to play HD Quicktime - deckeda - 05-25-2007
Your 1.8 G5s should be fine, and since you already have them it won't cost you anything but time (maybe) to confirm it.
Re: Cheap Mac to play HD Quicktime - MikeF - 05-25-2007
Dual G5 should do it:
However, 1080p may not. Also depends on graphic card and memory...
Re: Cheap Mac to play HD Quicktime - The Grim Ninja - 05-26-2007
The CoreDuo Mac Mini is supposed to be great at HD, but the CoreSolo not so much.
Any dual G5 should be great, but I would recommend making sure it doesn't have a Geforce 5200 card as they're about worthless. A Radeon 9600 should do nicely. I used a 9600 in a MDD G4 for some HD and it worked adequately. I imagine some frames were dropped, but I didn't check.