Is my Mac good enough really?

I think that I have the minimum Mac requirements for FCE HD. Does anyone out there have a mac similar to mine that can attest to FCE HD working properly or you being able to use all of its functions/ options?
Thanks for the feedback (in advance),
José M. Cuervo...

You see my Mac's qualifications. But I used to only have 512 MBs of RAM. I just got FCE 3.0 a few months ago. It ran okay with 512 megs of RAM. (I've since upgraded to 1 GB, which is sublime!)
The Mini is booting off of an external firewire drive (one of those cute "Mini Stacks" you can get over at Macsales.com). That does help speed up the hard drive a little, I suppose. And I've got another external hard drive for storing media (which is what everyone recommends). I'm not sure how much fun I would have had with the Mini (when it had only 512 MBs of RAM) if I was trying to do all my work on the slower Mini laptop drive, but with the external firewire ones, it really wasn't so bad.
If what you've got is what you've got as far as hardware goes, I'd say, go for it! Get your foot in the door. Then you can upgrade to something faster later.

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