On 14 Jan 2005, at 07:59 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I'd get the memory from DMS (http://www.datamem.com/). Last I checked, they were about $180
So does OWC. Egghead has even better prices. But like I said, I'm extremely wary of generic cheap RAM, especially in a tiny little box like the Mac mini. It's going to get hot in there. Lots of places have better deals than Crucial, and everyone reputable has a "lifetime warranty," but I want the same RAM Apple uses (Crucial or Samsung, and Samsung is even more expensive).
Also, as the tech at OWC told me, and as I saw first-hand with my girlfriend's PowerBook, recent Macs are really, really finicky about RAM. If it wasn't such an ordeal to crack the case, I'd just get the cheapest RAM I could find (with a lifetime warranty, that is), and replace it as needed. But I definitely don't want to have to go through that with the Mac mini.
Also, there's the DVI splitter cable from Pacific Cable (which I'm still not sure will work), which is $57.36, including shipping.Splitter for? What? To try to get it to run two monitors? I don't think it will. There is a hack out on the internet that lets powerbook/iBook to run two monitors. And it works for the iMac G5. But I don't think it will work with the Mac mini simply because there are not two separate outputs on the Mac mini.
I don't know if it will work either, but it worked for this guy:
http://www.3dgameman.com/reviews/aiw_dual_display/aiw_dual_display.html
True, he was using a Radeon 9700 on a PC, and I'm trying to use it on a Radeon 9200 and a Mac (both chipsets support dual monitors, even if some versions of them don't have dual outputs). But it is at least *technically* possible for a single DVI-I port to run two displays by using this cable, which splits the DVI-I signal (analog+digital) into separate DVI-D (digital) and VGA (analog) streams. And I'm only interested in mirroring, not in having an extended desktop.
Whether it will work with this specific configuration is another question entirely. But no one seems to know, so I had to order the cable to find out.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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