Digital photography. will a mini do?

My father is into digital photography, about a year ago he bought a canon rebel XT and has been spending alot of money on it in that time. The one thing that he hasn't spent any money on is his computer, he is still using my old AMD Athlon thunderbird.
I recently switched over to the MAC with a 20 inch iMac and will never go back! this has made him think about doing the same, he asked me to look into what kind of mac he should get. my first reaction was that the mini wasn't powerfull enough for him. He has filled up his 120gb hard drive with pictures, countless cd's and has even started using my hard drive for extra storage. He plays around with them a bit in photoshop, gets some developed, he has been talking about starting a web page. He isn't doing anything extremely hardcore but things that need a little more power then the average user would need.
so is the mac mini up to the job? The iMac is quite alot more, but i don't want him to get something that wont give him the performance he needs.

In terms of processor speed, the mac mini packs plenty of power. Many will point out that Photoshop isn't Intel native which is true but it runs under Rosetta about as fast as it does on the G4 iMacs at work and no one is complaining that it is too slow. When Adobe ships the Universal version in 2007 we should see a big speed increase.
You'll want to upgrade the RAM - the stock 512MB won't be enough. You'll also want more hard drive space - I got a FireWire external drive for mine and boot with it. I use the internal drive just for music.

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