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silverpenguin
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So after a TWO MONTH wait I finally have my Mini! The delay was due to me wanting bluetooth/wireless and upgraded memory apparantly, but its here now so I won't go on about how frustrating it was having a mouse and keybaord sitting here for two months! lol
So far I am loving the Mini. Getting it hooked up the plasma was a bit of an effort to start with so I'll get the only negative out the way now: Basically the plasma native res is around 800x400 (I forget exactly what it is now) and I am running the Mini at 1280x720 which at first worked fine with my current VGA cable that I use to connect my Sky+ to the plasma. But as soon as I swapped cables to the second vga one I had to buy I lost the 1280x720 option from display prefrences and the Mini didn't give the name of my plasma, as if it didn't know what it was connected to. Also, rebooting the Mini would result in it loading back up in the wrong resolution! Lots of cable swapping and head scratching followed but I eventually got it sorted out what the problem was, seems the issue was with my second vga port, using the built in one that the plasma came with as standard the problem doesn't appear to be there (touch wood).
Other than that all I can say is WOW! I am loving everything about the Mini. It detected the bluetooth keyboard on first power up and it detected my new wireless router straight away (where as the pc in the bedroom thats hard wired to it gave me grief!). I was a little unsure how the plasma would handle the picture being its native resolution is lower than the 1280x720 I am running it at but it looks stunning! I have always been impressed with the PW6 picture quality and this has again confirmed what a great display it is! I put some high res pictures from my website on het screen aver and it looks soooo good!
Obviously it is not as sharp as a dedicated high res monitor, but for browsing the web, viewing downloaded video content and playing music via iTunes it is MORE than good enough. Video or picture editing I don't do on it anyway so the resolution (and lack of power as some people say it has) don't bother me.
The spec I went for was:
1.42ghz with 80gig hd
512mb ram
bluetooth/wireless
Here are a couple of pictures I took quickly just before I ran out the door for work. I will be swapping the dvd and Mini round so the Mini is sitting under the speaker at some point.
Desktop:
iTunes and the dock:
Episode 3 trailer running full screen:
Quick question, I have pretty much had it on 24/7 since I plugged it in about 3 days ago. Is this ok to do? I felt it and it never feels like its getting very hot so i'm guessing I'm ko to do this?
So far I am loving the Mini. Getting it hooked up the plasma was a bit of an effort to start with so I'll get the only negative out the way now: Basically the plasma native res is around 800x400 (I forget exactly what it is now) and I am running the Mini at 1280x720 which at first worked fine with my current VGA cable that I use to connect my Sky+ to the plasma. But as soon as I swapped cables to the second vga one I had to buy I lost the 1280x720 option from display prefrences and the Mini didn't give the name of my plasma, as if it didn't know what it was connected to. Also, rebooting the Mini would result in it loading back up in the wrong resolution! Lots of cable swapping and head scratching followed but I eventually got it sorted out what the problem was, seems the issue was with my second vga port, using the built in one that the plasma came with as standard the problem doesn't appear to be there (touch wood).
Other than that all I can say is WOW! I am loving everything about the Mini. It detected the bluetooth keyboard on first power up and it detected my new wireless router straight away (where as the pc in the bedroom thats hard wired to it gave me grief!). I was a little unsure how the plasma would handle the picture being its native resolution is lower than the 1280x720 I am running it at but it looks stunning! I have always been impressed with the PW6 picture quality and this has again confirmed what a great display it is! I put some high res pictures from my website on het screen aver and it looks soooo good!
Obviously it is not as sharp as a dedicated high res monitor, but for browsing the web, viewing downloaded video content and playing music via iTunes it is MORE than good enough. Video or picture editing I don't do on it anyway so the resolution (and lack of power as some people say it has) don't bother me.
The spec I went for was:
1.42ghz with 80gig hd
512mb ram
bluetooth/wireless
Here are a couple of pictures I took quickly just before I ran out the door for work. I will be swapping the dvd and Mini round so the Mini is sitting under the speaker at some point.
Desktop:
iTunes and the dock:
Episode 3 trailer running full screen:
Quick question, I have pretty much had it on 24/7 since I plugged it in about 3 days ago. Is this ok to do? I felt it and it never feels like its getting very hot so i'm guessing I'm ko to do this?
