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  • Quote: Originally Posted by gwoodpecker The AirPort Express has a router inside, routing the incoming ethernet signals to the wireless network. It only has one Ethernet port, though, so cou can connect only the NAS device or the ethernet cable fro…
  • So does the iTV require another Mac to be up and running somewhere in the house? If so, I am not sure what the point is. If, on the other hand, this thing can stream media from a NAS or attached drive, things get more interesting. I guess we wi…
    in iTV Comment by smatanovic September 2006
  • Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison Well Apple could toss in a toslkink spdif connector for legacy support but HDMI is in fact digi I/O for audio and video with much more bandwidth than spdif. Interesting. How many receivers have HDMI in?…
  • Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison Apple should rebrand this Mac media center 1. Utilize Solo and Duo Core Yonah's 2. Make it larger and use 3.5' SATA drives. 3. Add HDMI connections include HDMI-DVI adapter 4. Add a TV Tuner W…
  • Quote: Originally posted by AppleRISC http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/ The irony is great. Steve has become a real clown lately. Are we missing something? It's not like macs will be running Pentium 4's. Ther will at the very le…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Sport73 The Treo and other 'polled' solutions are fine, but if you're out of office for a week and get 600 e-mails; you'll still have 600 e-mails marked as NEW when you get back, with the Blackberry and BES a deletion …
  • Quote: Originally posted by nirrad Ugh. What a pain. Oh well. However, it seems like you know your way around BB. I'm kind of new at it. I actually have one day left before I can take it back and try something else. Would you recommend the Tre…
  • Quote: Originally posted by sandau err, i hate to admit, but i have one on top of my tv. not really needed but there it sits... looks better than stuck in the wall or on a power strip. haven't seen any performance gains. Performance gain…
  • Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman dude, do you know the new iMac g5 has a digital optical out ?? forget da Mini... or the Sonica, for that matter... get da new iMac g5 2.0ghz 20"incher edit: except i forgot you mentioned that you alr…
  • Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman have you seen this? you can use your Mini as a dvd player, hook it up to the m-audio Sonica, and have dts/ac-3 passthrough so that the sonica theater sends the dts/ac-3 via coax digital out to your dts/dolby…
  • I use a Samsung LCD HDTV as our primary viewing TV and it workd just fine. I contemplating dropping my DVD player and using a Mini as a music server/dvd player. all that is holding me back is the lack of a digital audio out solution that I am real…
  • Quote: Originally posted by jabohn iChat is useless to me because nobody I know uses AIM or .mac. I've never met anyone who didn't use MSN. Maybe it's just my part of the world that's like that. So I get to use Adium which, other than video ch…
  • Quote: Originally posted by geekdreams Adium has been updated for Tiger: http://www.adiumx.com/ Nice. Just installed it. I also solved my mail problem: i had forgotten to disable the Panther Mail plugins before upgrading.
  • Quote: Originally posted by Timo check out head-fi.org Dangerous place. :-) Based on reviews there, I picked up the Shure e3c. Un-frickin-believable. Sure, you can pay even more and get even better earphones, but I don't think anything …
  • Perfect, thanks, everyone. SM
  • I too deal with a music collection that doesn't fit my ipod (20 gb 4G) but I don't find it to be too big a problem, as I make sure to listen to new (or less recently played) stuff using smart playlists and a "flavor of the day" playlist that I chang…
  • Quote: Originally posted by YoMaMa From the iPod shuffle User Guide: Select ?Convert higher bitrate songs to 128 kbps AAC for this iPod.? Note: If this option is selected, songs encoded in AIFF or Apple Lossless format are converted to 128…
  • Cool, thanks. I would appreciate the input of people who get their shuffles as to whether the downconversion happens only to the files that get transfered to the shuffle (and that the source files remain unchanged). Thanks! AdL
  • Quote: Originally posted by D.J. Adequate That was me. I got the information from this review: http://www.macworld.com/2005/01/revi...view/index.php I quote: Its first space-saving trick is to limit the kinds of files that can be played …
  • Quote: Originally posted by ruud From what I understand (not having an iPod shuffle myself (yet)), you don't HAVE to downconvert to 128 kbit AAC. If you downconvert to 256 kbit (or whatever minimum you find acceptable) yourself, you could upload…