Well this sucks, but I think the RAM I got from OWC was probably bad. I switched it oot for the original chips and my mac has been running for several hours with a bunch of software running, without (yet) a kernel panic.

Seeing OS X crash was a new experience as *literally*, I have not seen my Powerbook crash. Ever.

Hopefully, OWC won’t fuss too much on a return, and will hopefully send my some better RAM. I was on the point of doing a reinstall, but I figured I’d try the RAM switch first, and I have been running iMovieHD, iTunes, Safari, Dashboard widgets etc.

It’s worth noting that contrary to the first impressions, the mini is doing great with only 512 Megs. What gives !!! It really did suck initially, lots of spinning beachball, not like my powerbook at all. I suspect, maybe groundless that the Spotlight indexer sucks up a lot of cpu initially, before the machine settles down to how it should behave.