okay for recording video but quality/useability is dependant on your Mac. good for watching analog and digital broadcasts. The Mini's 'laptop' hard drive is (obviously) not as ideal for DV recording as a desktop 7200RPM one although I'm confident that it would still be up to the task.Įssentially, from my experience with the Hybrid and from the literature that I've read For one, your system will not be pushed as hard.
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I haven't used the EyeTV 250 so I can't make a recommendation from personal experience but my understanding is that because the 250 performs hardware encoding as opposed to requiring the Mac to do it via software - performance should be noticeably better. In the latter case, a hardware encoding solution is preferred. My understanding is that the hybrid is a good solution for watching televison, less ideal for recording. On that note, even a core duo iMac with 2GB of RAM experiences the odd glitch with the EyeTV hybrid.
With a traditional 5400RPM laptop hard drive, the performance will suffer more compared to, as an example, my iMac's desktop 7200RPM drive. If you run out of physical memory, your Mac will turn to VM which will will slow things down. I haven't monitored how much memory EyeTV uses over an extended period of time but it seemed to grow the longer it ran/recorded.
The OS will use at least half of that not to mention the extra memory use via the Intel graphics chip. I wouldn't trust 512MB total RAM to be enough for everyday use, never mind multimedia. The other issue for Jay is whether 512MB of RAM is up Transmitter such as a wireless network station orĬordless phone is causing intereference for the EyeTV Just a thought - is it possible that a radio
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