CoreImage quality on the new mini?

I'm curious about the image quality of the GMA950. I finally got to play with the Core Duo mini (stock config) at my local Apple store.
I was able to play 1080p h.264 clips from the Quicktime site, though I did see some frame-dropping (perhaps due to the 512MB of RAM). 720p clips, as already established, played beautifully. Everything I tried seemed notably snappier than my own 1.42GHz G4 mini, of course.
I did see a weird blurring of the widgets during the ripple effect in Dashboard. (Steps to reproduce: drag the Dictionary or any other widget with text off the 'shelf' into the Dashboard, watch the 'ripple.') Until the ripple/bobbing effect ends, the text on the widget is blurred. As soon as the eye-candy effects are finished, the widget looks perfectly normal and sharp. I walked to an iMac 17" and an iMac 20" to compare, and there is no such blurring of the text during the effect. It just looks like the normal widget, surrounded by the ripple and appearing to bob up and down on a water surface.
Has anyone else observed this in-store or at home? If so, why might this occur? (Driver issues? Speed/performance of the GMA950? Shared memory performance?) I'm mostly curious about this because the quality of CoreImage rendering seems relevant as some developers begin to build image editing applications that make use of it.
Mac mini G4 1.42GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

That is normal if you have font smoothing enabled in the Appearance Preference pane. The ripple animation was most likely coded to disable the smoothing (or vice versa) until the ripple animation was done making eye candy. The GPU/CPU then doesn't have to try to smooth the ripple (which in effect is unsmoothing the text, no?)
I've been using my Core Duo mini for a few days now and am very, very happy with the graphics in terms of quality and speed. It compares very favorably with my older dual CPU G5 PowerMac which has a PCI-X dedicated graphics card and VRAM.

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