Just going to get a Mac Mini...

Hi guys and gals! I'm really excited right now, as I am going to get a Mac Mini in 3 days! My first Mac! I'm also going to pick up a 17" display the same day from Dell or Sony. Wow. I can't really express my enthusiasm in words and I keep belaboring the point that I am very excited!
Here's my setup:
1.42GHz PowerPC G4
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200
32MB DDR video memory
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD/CD-RW)
DVI or VGA video output
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth
Also, I had some questions:
- What do I use for extracting files from a compressed folder in OSX? For Windows I use Winzip and Winrar.
- I occasionaly edit video, maybe 3 times a month max. Will iMovie do fine with 512MB RAM?
- With 512MB RAM, will I experience repeated delays and "lag"?
Thanks,
Vikram

Hey, Vik;
congratulations on getting your Mini (or when you do..)
I couldn't encourage you strongly enough to get 1GB of RAM..I have a Mini on its way to me, and I ordered it with the full 1GB of RAM. This time, I bought the Apple RAM as it's not really that expensive, and will avoid the "take out all 3rd party RAM" suggestion apple provides in case of troubleshooting.
I'm downgrading from a pair of DP 2Ghz G5s, and do video editing; plan to do so on my 1.42ghz mini. I'm booting from an external 7200 RPM FW drive, and expect to do video just finetho, obviously much slower than on a G5!
Consider that a few years ago, a 1.42Ghz anything would have been considered a fantasy dream machine, I feel that I and all Mini users need to look at what we throw at the machine to get the most out of it. Maybe you'll have to be satisfied with fewer processes going on at once on your Mini, or maybe you'll have to trim your video clips more exactingly, not chuffing the burden on the Mini to blast thru the calculations on things you don't need it to do.
Bottom line is, the Mini is far more capable than the recommendations. I edited video on a 600Mhz Snow iBook; this Mini eats that iBook for lunch.
r

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