Question about MacMini 1.66, 512 Ram?

Hello,
Need some input please. I currently use a PC for school, but lately, most of my classes require special charts. I have found several programs ranging from $179 - $456; this is just too much to pay. My thinking is- I could purchase a Mac Mini for the price of the software. Looking under productivity tools on Apple’s website, I found a few free programs that will enable me to create Gantt Charts. I am just simply amazed on the amount of programs that are available to Mac users. Apple appears to be college student friendly. To purchase such programs for Windows would cause me to go bankrupt, figuratively speaking. My question to you would be; will a Mac Mini 1.66, 512 ram be sufficient to run such programs? I will not run windows on the mini, just Mac software. Thanks for any input.

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Whether that amount of memory would be sufficient depends on whether to software you are going to use is Intel-native or not. That is a factor you need to check when you look at the various packages available - if they show they are 'universal' or written for Intel macs, then 512 will generally give you acceptably good performance. If they are not universal or intel-native, meaning they are written to run on the previous PPC-based Mac systems, the software will still run on a new mini, but will require Rosetta, an on-the-fly translator, in order to work. Rosetta is included in the system so there's nothing additional to buy, but because it needs a lot of memory of it's own, it'll tend to make the system run very poorly.
If you don't know whether the software is PPC only, Intel-native or Universal (the latter two meaning it runs without requiring Rosetta) then a system with 1Gb of RAM or more would be better. As ever, more RAM is always better than less!

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