[Sketch]

ok this question is from my friend; he has mac mini core duo but as you know it has a 64 MB shared graphics. So it is a problem to desing molecules and stuff which you need a higher graphics support. Any ideas? I mean can you just integrate another graphics card into it or it is not possible and have to live with it?

[Windowsrookie]

no, you cannot upgrade the graphics card.

[Brad]

Integrated graphics means the graphics chipset is literally integrated into the motherboard. There simply is no graphics card to replace.

[Sketch]

well too bad for him. thanks for the help anyway.

[Banana]

Can it be unsoldered/soldered?

Even so, that'd be up to like, 0.00001% of hardware monkeys who are gutsy to do such deed.

[curiousuburb]

Intel says it will dynamically ramp up shared memory to a max of 224MB, if you've got the RAM for it, so maxing the system RAM isn't a bad idea anyway, but no official word from Apple if this is implemented... some screencaps of system profiler seem to show 256MB of shared memory in use by the GMA950, but I haven't seen any cinebench tests with different amounts of RAM to prove this.

As a curious question... why try to design molecules with a mini (Core or G4) ?
Why not a PM (which has upgradeable graphics if that's the dealbreaker) ?

[Luca]

No, it was already mentioned in a Macworld article a while ago that the Mac mini does not use any more or less than 80 MB of system RAM, despite Intel's specs allowing for up to 224 MB to be used. Apple System Profiler is often wrong about these things.

[Sketch]

Originally Posted by curiousuburb As a curious question... why try to design molecules with a mini (Core or G4) ? Why not a PM (which has upgradeable graphics if that's the dealbreaker) ?

well first of all can't afford to but a PM and one more thing is that the guy in the store said it is fast enough for that because it is core duo. Guess it is not so true.