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Interesting Ditty, thanks.

With the kind help of Astroman and Hubird I think I'm coming to a "gentleman's agreement" with my Mini.

At the moment it does seem like the graphics card and RAM are the weak points for me.

This article's fairly useful, but also makes a fairly strong case for upgrading the memory (this is the conclusion):
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2328&p=18

Memory would definitely be a major factor - actually running a WindowsXP machine with 256MB is a whole world of pain too.

Spirit's problem isn't related to the Minimac at all... it's an old version on the the Flash application maker, from 2002, which is causing the trouble - and for obvious reasons it doesn't know much about OSX gaphics, at least not the version supplied with the mini ...

I've run the animation on a 300MHZ G3 iBook, almost no sound stuttering at all, while the mini is definetely unbearable, and seemed to crash several times at the same position.

The graphic content appears to have a much too high resolution (for the screen) - obviously shifting at least for times more pixel than necessary (imho)

Anyway, a 1 gig memory module would be cool - as is the opening of the cookie box - did you see any screws...
Of course not, Apple has abandoned that stuff long ago - and brings one nice case opening challenge after the other in regular intervals.
As far as I know it's suggested to use a very sharp version of a tool that's normally applied to cement on walls
and finally there's already some 200 MB updates on Apple's servers...

cheers, Tom

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2005-04-18 15:59 ]</font>

Tom, that's a most impressive analysis !

To explain just a couple of points...

I always use slightly older versions of Flash since that means (in the swf versions) people won't be nagged to update their player. It would *never* have ocurred to me that an OS would somehow abandon or reduce its ability to play something just a few years old.

But if that is the case with OSX it certainly explains a few things.

The graphic content is designed to be high-resolution and the "twinkling" effect you saw was also by design. Flash can't handle totally smooth zoom of raster material, but I've tried to use that to my advantage. So that one is a known Flash problem, not PC or Mac...

What about that 200Mb update ? I already tried the Mini with "update software" but certainly came nowhere near 200Mb worth.

What should I look for to download ?

Thanks again for such an analysis !