Powerbook 1ghz - fast enough for divx?

I have an opprotunity to get a great deal on a titanium 1ghz powerbook, which i would like to use as a portable personal media center... im curious if anybody has experience using one to watch divx .avi files using toast 7's divx codec? Im sure i could use VLC and it would work fine, but if possible i'd like to use quicktime to watch things.
I know that there's a careful balance between the graphics processor and CPU to be successful with playback. I have a dual 500 with a radeon 9000 and it is not fast enough to watch divx files without serious skipping. However that same graphics card in a dual 1.25ghz G4 played them easily. The 1ghz has a 64mb radeon 9000 (presuming mobility version) but Im not sure if a 1ghz processor would be enough to play them successfully.
I would appreciate anybody's opinions on this matter. Thanks for all your help.

Hi Henry,
Have you been to www.divx.com? Lots of info there and a different app that may work better for your purposes than Toast. Looks like the 1GHz would have plenty of power for it too:
DivX for Mac
Minimum System Requirements:
500 MHz G4 or faster
QuickTime 7
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Recommended System Requirements:
600 MHz G4 or faster
QuickTime 7 or later
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
DivX Video-on-Demand
Minimum System Requirements:
600 MB available hard drive space
Broadband Network Connection (512 kbps or higher)
Internet Explorer 5, FireFox 1
Graphics card with 64MB of RAM or more and supporting 24-bit color or better for DivX High Definition profile video
Recommended System Requirements
800 MB available hard drive space
Broadband Network Connection (512 kbps or higher)
Internet Explorer 6, FireFox 1.5
Graphics card with 64MB of RAM or more and supporting 24-bit color or better for DivX High Definition profile video

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