Hey all Due to a nearby lightning strike this summer, I had to replace a bunch of equipment in my house and one of the casualties was the Mac Mini that was my wife's main computer. It took out the sound adapter and one of the USB ports but the rest worked just fine. My wife is a big fan of Youtube so not having any sound was not going to work. After installing her new 24" iMac last week, I immediately started thinking of using the mac mini as my PowerSDR computer.
Thursday, I removed all of her files and repartitioned the disk drive to support a 75GB NTFS partition. The mini has a 1.8 gHz Core 2 Duo proc with 2 GB of memory. I am not sure what the graphics chip is but am pretty sure its ATI. Friday I installed Windows XP, tweaked it, then ran Alacrity to streamline it for PowerSDR. Downloaded the latest SVN, etc. then ran DPCLat. It was averaging around 82 with a max of 170-ish. Based on this, I figured I could run the 5K in normal mode (instead of safe mode 1). This weekend I played in the Sartg rttty contest. I was very impressed how it played.The size of the mini is perfect, sat on top of the 5K and looked perfect. My main concern (once I saw how well PowerSDR played while VAC, hotwheel, RCKLog with MTTY running) was RF when the amp was running. Turned out that there was not a speck of RF symptoms at 1500 watts. As I wrote earlier, this is a great deal since once we get the new architecture, I can stop using boot camp and just revert to using it as a mac as Steve Jobs intended! Anyone looking for a small, dedicated computer should really take a look at the mac mini! Neal -- Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at www.abrohamnealsoftware.com - introduction priced at $10.99 ------------------------------------------------- For a great dog book, visit www.abrohamneal.com ------------------------------------------------- See the FlexRadio Systems Flex-5000a in action at www.flex-videos.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
