Mac Mini adventures … Part II

In my previous post I talked about switching my home setup to Intel Mac’s. There has been only one major problem and that was with my 32” Lexsor LCD. In the end, and trust me I tried many options, I bit the bullet and accepted there was a fairly serious incompatability problem with the 2 devices.

In the end I would say that neither the Mac Mini or the Lexsor was specifically to blame, the Lexsor talks to everything else I hooked it up to, although interestingly not via it’s DVI input. Then again the Mac Mini also displays on everything else I connected it to, I didn’t try hooking it up to a kettle, but then that would have been quite seriously dumb.

Ultimately drastic measures had to be taken, I went off to the local emporium of large screen LCD TV’s. Dragging the Mac Mini along to test for further incompatabilites before I shelled out some serious wong for a replacement screen.

I was pleased to find that all the screens I tested worked fine, so I was able to pick out the one with the best range of resolutions, aspect ratio’s etc… To be fair I’d been less than completely satisfied with the Lexsor, for one, aspect ratio’s of only 4:3 style resolutions are supported, and there is little in the way of general audio out (a headphone socket with independent volume control only accessible via a menu). In a word I had all the excuses I was looking for to get a new screen, and hell, it was my birthday the day before, so… to be really adult… Boo.

So I came away with a (very heavy) 42” LG LCD got it home, set it all up, and grinned exhausted, but very relieved that I now had the Mac mini running the home theatre.

Moral of the story, it’s all good if your equipment is compatible.

Add comment March 15th, 2007