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Mac Mini & Outboard DAC

I'm trying desperately to simplify the basic home system. Seems to me, a mac mini, and decent outboard dac would do the job. I've built my own speakers and have a bel canto S300 dual mono amp for power. I can get internet radio streams, which are superior to my am/fm reception. I can move all my apple lossless files to the hardrive, and with a Miglia TVMax+ I can rig it as a DVR/DVD player. Surely I'm missing something. I'd be much obliged if someone can tell me where this will fail before I give it a shot.
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edesilva
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I had a mac mini attached to my main rig for a while. I've since changed to a headless PC box and a touchscreen airpanel running remote desktop. I think my problem with the mac solution was that turning on the tv, getting out the keyboard, and trying to make an optical mouse work on a glass coffee table was kind of trying if I just wanted to quick tunes.
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shadorne
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I use a wireless keyboard with trackball with my Mac Mini. I don't use it to store music however - just to surf the net and control the CD players. This was I can control everything from the listening position on an HD TV. ON ething that gave me a headache was I had to reprogram teh video card in order to output 720 P to the HDTV - unless you do this then inevitably you tend to have parts of teh screen missing as MAC OS X native screen resolutions do not match the 1920 x 1080 of the TV.....this was a minor detail but it took a whole evening to work out...
restock
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Shadorne, care to share some of the info on how to re-program the card? I
changed the overscan option in the Mini menu for our LCD TV. Otherwise things
will be missing on the screen as you mentioned. However, this is still not the
best solution since now I have small black bars on the side and top.
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