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05/19/2005: "macMaxi"

The wife gave me a fully-loaded macMini for my birthday. Sweet.

I spent the better part of the evening hooking it up to the 50" Sony HDTV we bought when we moved here. The video was pretty bad until follow the advice of my bud John Richie and loaded Tiger and turned off the overscan. Then, with the resolution set to 1280x760 (760p), things instantly came together. Its Beautiful.

I even found an excuse to put an AP back up. It covers the condo as well as the 1W AP ever did. Weird but true.

I pulled the iSight back out of the closet where its sat since before we moved.

Now I've got a Mac with a massive screen, fast (enough) net, lisp, emacs and all the other toys.

Things went well enough with the upgrade on the mini, so I upgraded the PowerBook to Tiger too.

About the only bummer is that the wireless keyboard doesn't work. The (bluetooth) mouse works, but the LED on the keyboard stays dark, despite trying two different sets of batteries. I guess I'll be calling Apple in a few hours.

Its a MacOrgasm around here. Now if I can just con the wife into a really big display for the PowerBook, or a G5.