Given that I also use a 1GHz G4 power mac for video work (it's quite slow but certainly still serviceable for the task) I would suggest you look at possible reasons your MacBook seems slow and perhaps attempt to resolve that before considering a new system to replace it however. But for amateur level use, it should work pretty well - particularly with the RAM maxxed out. At professional level, the mini would not be a good choice simply because it will not be sufficiently smooth and seamless to use. Whether it is satisfactory, and thus a good purchase for you to make, depends on how intensively you work. Not that the mini is faster for such work than an equivalent MacBook - they typically share much in the way of hardware so their performance is broadly comparable - but a Mac mini certainly makes a perfectly adequate platform for this kind of work. I have Photoshop Elements (6) running on a couple of 1.83 minis and it works well. Indeed, Final Cut Express makes somewhat less demand on the system than iMovie and thus tends to run rather more smoothly. I've used all sorts of Macs, including G4 minis, for video work and while the slower systems are not ideal due to such things as 5400rpm hard drives, they work more than sufficiently with software such as iMovie and Final Cut Express.
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