How is new Mac mini's shared video memory limited?

If I upgrade my memory, say from 1GB to 4GB, will the limit of shared memory size be raised?

You've actually posted in the iPod Mini forum.
Look here for the Mac Mini forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=158
Best of luck.

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