lifehacker.com— Lifehacker pimps out a mac mini they way it should! A pretty cool article showing a bunch of cool ways to upgrade, hack and modify your little machine into the coolest computer in your home.
Mar 13, 2006View in Crawl 4
anyone got any good ways of outputting surround audio from a powerpc mac mini?Ive seen those m-audio transits but they cost 200AUD in australia... so screw that.surely someone makes a cheapish surround sound audio to firewire/USB device for mac?
exactly. the ministacks rock, especially if you grab the 500GB model. =P the newer models have more ports on them too. (miniStack v2.0)the pimpin article sucked btw.
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I followed the link to the specs page for the Belkin USB/firewire hub as I'm looking to expand my Mini. It states that an external power adapter isn't needed. That's rubbish - fill up a few of those ports and the Mini will disable them because they're drawing too much juice. This happens to me without a hub when I have an external hard drive, keyboard (which includes two USB ports), mouse and Elgato TV box connected simultaneously. Not that I'm complaining - the Mini is designed to be a low-powered, entry-level machine. I knew that when I bought it and am fine with it.Belkin are misleading people and being cheapskates by not including a proper power adapter, which is clearly essential.
phantomcMar 14, 2006
anyone got any good ways of outputting surround audio from a powerpc mac mini?Ive seen those m-audio transits but they cost 200AUD in australia... so screw that.surely someone makes a cheapish surround sound audio to firewire/USB device for mac?
diecastbeatdownMar 14, 2006
exactly. the ministacks rock, especially if you grab the 500GB model. =P the newer models have more ports on them too. (miniStack v2.0)the pimpin article sucked btw.
glidedonMar 14, 2006
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dreamkatchaMar 15, 2006
I followed the link to the specs page for the Belkin USB/firewire hub as I'm looking to expand my Mini. It states that an external power adapter isn't needed. That's rubbish - fill up a few of those ports and the Mini will disable them because they're drawing too much juice. This happens to me without a hub when I have an external hard drive, keyboard (which includes two USB ports), mouse and Elgato TV box connected simultaneously. Not that I'm complaining - the Mini is designed to be a low-powered, entry-level machine. I knew that when I bought it and am fine with it.Belkin are misleading people and being cheapskates by not including a proper power adapter, which is clearly essential.