Mac Mini- Starcraft 2

I just bought the new mac mini, 2.4 GHz Inter Core 2 Duo, 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 and i ocassionally play Starcraft 2 which sadly delays very often. Is this due to low computer performance?

i have the same mini as you and i added 4gigs of ram for a total of 5 gigs and starcraft 2 runs fine almost perfect.
make sure startcraft 2 settings are set to MED / Low on shadows and the game will run with 40+ FPS
the new mac mini will also run World of warcraft Cataclysm with no problem at all
i am in the beta for it now.

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    Hello,
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