Ordered!

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:08 pm

Maybe you can install that later. You know, when you're rebuilding after the earthquake.

Conner

Of Gallifrey

Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:55 pm

*steals thread*

I ordered a 27" i7 iMac a week and a half ago. Won't come until the 1st.

/epeen

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:06 pm

Whoah! I'm totally jonesing for one o' those.

Conner

Of Gallifrey

Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:44 pm

I hope I don't get a yellow one... *lol - death glare*

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:06 am

NEVER BUY FIRST GEN

ukimalefu

I'm The Stig

Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:27 am

OOOOOH MYYYY Goooooood!!!!

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:44 am

:: hands uki a drool cup ::

sturner

Ancient Soldier

Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:34 am

user wrote:
:: fondles lucky balls ::

I ain't touching that line with a 10-foot pole.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:06 am

I finally got the cables today, so ow I can finally hook up the Mini to the plasma!

Kirk

Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:19 am

Your post needs pics to drool over.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:45 am

Updated, connected and running! Watching the Office now. But damn if it isn't a goddamned clip show.

DukeofNuke

Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:31 am

Quote:
goddamned clip show

splainplz

is it not working as you had hoped?

Alexander Supertramp

The N stands for North.

Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:05 am

A clip show shows clips from old episodes.

I'm sure it's working fine.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:24 am

Yes, it's working fine from a technical standpoint.

A clip show is where instead of writing a plot for an episode, they concoct something cheap with a couple of the actors and just fill the show with clips from earlier episodes.

They mostly do it to save money.

DukeofNuke

Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:04 pm

ok
I thought it was freezing and stuttering.

remember, my current computer is a 300 mHz pismo.
it doesn't do youtube too well.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:24 pm

I've been using Ninja video ... it's great, they have a lot of shows in HD.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:23 pm

Update: got it all set up. Look how uncluttered it is!

I'm not 100% done yet ... I need to get longer HDMI cables plus some more wire molding so the cables are flush against the wall. But that's it! Works fine, too. Got the 360 and Mini hooked up just fine (in this shot the lady's watching Cougar Town on Ninja Video).

Kirk

Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:56 pm

Thanks for the picture. Now move the soft to the right and rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise so its directly in front of the screen.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:09 pm

Yeah, we're planning to do that. The couch to the right is our old urban black leather couch that totally doesn't match anything. We'll switch it with the soft one (and eventually replace it). Also we're going to get a nice big coffee table ... I've got a great dining room table I've had for awhile that's hand-carved (from Indonesia); I'm going to cut the legs short and toss it in there.

Kirk

Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:06 pm

Sorry to be picking at your furniture placement. I assume you'll have shades down on the windows most of the time? Otherwise the screen will be hard to view. Why didn't you center the screen in the space between the windows? Your other apparent option is to put the screen over the fireplace, but I'd hate doing that even more.

It sounds like it'll be nice after you're done.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:51 pm

Yeah, we've got blinds over the windows, but the wall on the right-hand side of the photo doesn't get huge amounts of direct sunlight (at least not in winter), so we probably won't keep them closed. Actually we have no trouble at all seeing the screen. That may change later on, I dunno.

The screen isn't centered between the windows because of the orientation of the room; the seating area isn't centered with the windows. So it looks a bit wonky, but it works when you're sitting on a couch.

And originally I planned to put it above the fireplace, but in the event the mantle was so high that viewing the screen was a major neck-craning situation, like being front row at a movie theatre.

Kirk

Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:17 pm

So you need tall chairs too.

Yeah, I'd never put a TV over my fireplace either.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:07 am

Lovely. It seems Apple might soon include an HDMI port on the Mini.

matt

somewhat dendrophobic

Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:14 am

That's really great news.

Making it easier to hook Macs to HDTVs will speed up convergence.

DukeofNuke

Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:21 am

Shnicky-Poo wrote:
Lovely. It seems Apple might soon include an HDMI port on the Mini.

Heh, heh, heh!

It seems no matter what you buy, the "new and improved" version hits the streets exactly two weeks later. at least, the new version isn't $100 less than what you paid.

You hope.

matt

somewhat dendrophobic

Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:41 am

Actually, after thinking about this for a few hours, I think I'd rather just have a Mini DisplayPort with an HDMI adapter, since Mini DisplayPorts can also be easily hooked up to VGA or DVI connections, using $28 adapters.

ukimalefu

I'm The Stig

Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:03 pm

Yeah, I think Apple would just throw in an extra adapter.

DukeofNuke

Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:52 pm

matt wrote:
Actually, after thinking about this for a few hours, I think I'd rather just have a Mini DisplayPort with an HDMI adapter, since Mini DisplayPorts can also be easily hooked up to VGA or DVI connections, using $28 adapters.

Did they give up the dispaly port ? If the HDMI is in addition to what is already there, than it's a good thing.

matt

somewhat dendrophobic

Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:25 pm

If it's in addition, then I think it's a good thing, too, but I think the rumors are reporting that they'll replace Mini DisplayPort with HDMI, and since DisplayPort has higher bandwidth available(up to 17.2Gbps vs HDMI's 10.2Gbps), I wouldn't want them to do that, when adapters are so cheap and Mini DisplayPort is already common on all Macs used within the past several years.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:45 pm

matt wrote:
Actually, after thinking about this for a few hours, I think I'd rather just have a Mini DisplayPort with an HDMI adapter, since Mini DisplayPorts can also be easily hooked up to VGA or DVI connections, using $28 adapters.

My HDMI adapter cost considerably more than that.

matt

somewhat dendrophobic

Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:24 pm

Here's a new one for $8.59 including free shipping from an independent Amazon retailer.

Dan

The Only, The Angry

Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:36 pm

Shnicky-Poo wrote:

matt wrote:
Actually, after thinking about this for a few hours, I think I'd rather just have a Mini DisplayPort with an HDMI adapter, since Mini DisplayPorts can also be easily hooked up to VGA or DVI connections, using $28 adapters.

My HDMI adapter cost considerably more than that.

Don't buy cables or adapters from places like Best Buy.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:34 pm

Dan wrote:

Shnicky-Poo wrote:

matt wrote:
Actually, after thinking about this for a few hours, I think I'd rather just have a Mini DisplayPort with an HDMI adapter, since Mini DisplayPorts can also be easily hooked up to VGA or DVI connections, using $28 adapters.

My HDMI adapter cost considerably more than that.

Don't buy cables or adapters from places like Best Buy.

'Course not.

I bought it from Monoprice. Their site seems to be down, but it's an HDMI adapter with Toslink to provide sound. I think it was around $60.

DukeofNuke

Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:42 pm

it was the toslink that ran the price up

matt

somewhat dendrophobic

Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:50 pm

That's interesting to me, because toslink cables are fairly inexpensive, too(I got two of them for $5 including shipping and toslink-to-mini-toslink adapters).

dv

Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:25 pm

matt wrote:
That's interesting to me, because toslink cables are fairly inexpensive, too(I got two of them for $5 including shipping and toslink-to-mini-toslink adapters).

Two-in-one cables are always more expensive than the sum of their parts, though.

Shnicky-Poo

Groovin'

Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:39 am

Damn you Toslink!!!

:mad:

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