700 dollar Mac mini. Good for video editing?

[BurntNewt]

I’m thinking of getting the 2.6 ghz 700 dollar Mac mini just for some basic video editing on iMovie. I can’t find many sources on whether it’s a good buy for basic video editing in iMovie (videos will usually be about 30 seconds to 1 minutes)

[Guest]

I used to do basic video editing on ancient laptops, so for basic video editing im sure it will work.

IMovie and windows movie maker are pretty small programs.

[Sauron]

No, it's not. It will work, of course, but for 700$ (or less) you could get much better performance if video editing is all you'll use it for. If you have other reasons to get a mac mini and the only think that's holding you back is not knowing whether or not imovie will run and allow you to edit 1 minute videos, however, then it should be fine.