[peekj]

Excellent, thanks, I will try that.

[ikramerica]

Originally Posted by Constantine

Another quick observation: I am dual booting Windows 7 RC1, which also runs like a champ, even with the Aero features on. I noticed though, that when streaming Netflix, Windows 7 with IE8 actually runs it at a SMOOTHER frame rate than OSX with FireFox 3. Definitely not what I was expecting. And again that's even with Aero turned on. Any thoughts on this?

Yes. Silverlight is a poorly optimized resource hog on OS X. MS really has no incentive to improve it. Over time, they have shown they don't care about optimizing apps for OS X.

Compare a silverlight video from Netflix to an HD H.264 video from iTunes and you'll see the difference. In terms of resource optimization, H.264 is best on OSX, Flash somewhere in the middle, and Silverlight the worst I've seen.

If you download and install "menumeters" from versiontracker, you can see for yourself how the processor is taxed. Of course, you can see this using activity monitor, too, but activity monitor uses resources on it's own that menumeters doesn't. You can also see RAM usage in menumeters.

[Toonvox]

First, thanks to everyone for their participation here - especially Anguish.

I got one of the Outlet 10v's today and immediately did a Mechdrew install from a single USB drive (How to Install Mac OS X: DellEFI Method). It's important to follow it verbatim. In my case, it had to be installed from an original 10.5.1 DVD, then upgraded to the 10.5.7 combo update. It worked beautifully.

The wi-fi kicked in after I went into System Preferences/Network. I'm not sure what the magic click combination was, but it seemed to "fix" itself nicely.

The sound came on when I simply went into System Preferences/Sound and changed the output device.

I then migrated everything from my Mac Mini 9 and so far, no problems.

The only thing is (all together now) no internal microphone. Judging by how this thread is progressing, I'll bet it's not far off at all.

If you're thinking of making the plunge in the Outlet store, the couple-dozen pixel shortage in the display hasn't been a real problem for me. And since they ended the 15% coupons, I've seen the 10v's there as low as $229 today (though not at this writing). Funny how that works out. And if you want to throw it old school, Mini 9's are at $229 for the 8gb/512.

Just wanted to pass along my experience today. Thanks again, all.

UPDATE a Day Later: Yeah, I'm also having trackpad problems. Installed the #17 driver, but the cursor still hates drag-and-drop.

[Steven_w]

Just wanted to say many many thanks for your guide... back about a month ago I was going to buy a mini 9, but your guide made me buy a Mini 10V, I followed your guide & the youtube vid plus some of the other tips and my Mini 10V is now working great, cheers!

[Steven_w]

By the way I had the same issue as ToonVox with the internal mic, but the strange thing is, after I first iinstalled the kext for sound, I video ichatted someone and the audio AND video were both fine, but since then it won't work.

Looking forward to that fix!

Thanks all!

[peekj]

Hey all, wondering if anyone can help me with the keyboard/mouse preference option. When I click it it says it can't be opened because it doesn't work on an Intel Mac. Odd?

I did install the keyboard preference pane from DellEFI 1.2a5 but it didn't help. I'd like to be able to configure my touchpad to allow me to tap to click but I don't want to use the custom driver... any suggestions?

[subzero]

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/mac-...installer.html


Try this...v17 seems pretty stable

[peekj]

I just uninstalled that because even though tapping for clicking works mostly and edge scrolling is pretty nice, click dragging is awful.

[slimandslam]

Originally Posted by peekj

I just uninstalled that because even though tapping for clicking works mostly and edge scrolling is pretty nice, click dragging is awful.

Yup. With either the v17 or v18 touchpad drivers, the Mini 10v cursor goes wild when you try to click-drag. Both v17 and v18 touchpad drivers exhibit this behavior. I'm hoping that Meklort or others will fix this soon. I have been using the default touchpad drivers since my last 10.5.7 install. They're adequate but sub-optimal.

SS

[peekj]

Originally Posted by slimandslam

Yup. With either the v17 or v18 touchpad drivers, the Mini 10v cursor goes wild when you try to click-drag. Both v17 and v18 touchpad drivers exhibit this behavior. I'm hoping that Meklort or others will fix this soon. I have been using the default touchpad drivers since my last 10.5.7 install. They're adequate but sub-optimal.

SS

Same here, but can you enable tap to click? I can't open the keyboard & mouse preference pane even though I did the step in DellEFI 1.2a5.