Ok, things are settling down a bit, and I’m getting more comfortable with OSX and Mac in general (thanks to all for the remote drives in startup tips). We’ve watched two movies on the Mac mini since it arrived, pretty much without a hitch. I say pretty much because the M-Audio Sonica theater has to go, [...]

I want to preface this review by saying I’m a windows user, have been since 93 or 94 when I bought a 75ish MHz Intel chip (my memories foggy), a barebones case and had a co-worker build me a ‘windows machine’. It blew obviously, and had little of the geek appeal of my first computer [...]

Well the DVi to Component adapter I ordered from Cyberguys arrived today and I attempted to connect it quite a few times. No dice, period. After some calls to Apple, ATI and Cyberguys I discovered that it won’t work at all on the mini to to the type of DVI connector. There are actually a [...]

Well after a world wind tour of the Far East and extreme northwestern part of the United States, my mini finally made its way to Atlanta this morning. I don’t think their going to fall for my ‘sick routine’ again at work, one dentist and doctor trip already this month. Oh well needless to say [...]

Since there is no media center application or interface to speak of other than some very early pieces that can handle a task or two, I’ve begun my own work to get the mini working via remote control to launch as well as manage my media. First Stop – Music iTunes is the clear weapon [...]

Ok, this guy is just kidding around, he must be. Check out a few ‘notable’ quotes from this ‘article’, geesh this isn’t even an article it’s a thesis for a degree in comedy. “When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I went out and picked up a Mac mini at a local store instead of waiting on my BTO order from Apple. My configuration is based on the faster 1.4GHz model with 512MB RAM, SuperDrive and Bluetooth. I may upgrade to Airport Extreme in the future and adjust the RAM as [...]