[freakydrew]

Greetings. I basically use my mini to listen to music in the kitchen, I have it hooked up to a 19" wall mounted Toshiba, which helps a lot.
I am waiting for the Head Direct RE2 and Fiio combo to arrive and have transferred my favourite flac files to a 16 Gb USB thumb drive to make the mini my portable player for outside or the cottage or whatever.

As this is my first netbook/laptop ever I don't know if it is possible to keep the music playing if I close the clamshell? Ideally, it would be great to be able to slide the mini under my lounging chair and not have to keep it open.

Thanks for reading this and I hope someone can help.

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

yep. You just need to go into power settings.

Right click on desktop and hit properties, or go to control panel and open display
go to screensaver
hit the power button in the bottom
there should be an option that says "when I close the lid", change that to "do nothing"
also in the "pluggen in" options, change everything to "do nothing" ie. hibernate, standby, shutdown, turn off hdd's, watever the list shows you, you can leave the "turn off display" option on if you want, but since you plan on closing the lid anyway, the display will automatically turn off, so no worries.

 

[freakydrew]

that is brilliant, and simple (smacks head in disgust).
I can now keep the clamshell closed, keep winamp up on the 19" and use the mouse to change songs, ff etc.
thanks so much

 

[DoYouRight]

I love this idea as a source for a dac amp. Do any of the dell netbooks have minitoslink? From what I have searched I can't find anything.

 

[mshan]

Great resource for Dell Mini 9: MyDellMini Home

 

[ZoNtO]

No netbooks have miniToslink at this point, no. Just USB.

 

[freakydrew]

jkkmobile

this guy has a lot of good mods....

I just wish the keyboard keys were slightly bigger. I do not have overly large fingers and find it a challenge to type sometimes....too bad Dell is abandoning the mini

 

[DoYouRight]

man I REALLY want like a new version of the N10 with optical. Heres to hoping. Would love to carry one around with me as a player/web browser/etc

 

[edart]

I've just purchased a Dell mini 10v and it's quite good for what I want to do with it though XP is not perfect so thinking of hacking it:

How to install OSX Boot 132 on Dell Inspiron Mini 9 step by step guide. | OSX86 Guides

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on Dell mini 10V – Inspiron 1011 « osx86sv.com

Anyone done this?

Also have a ipod touch 2g which since getting the netbook has seen less and less use! (maybe just because the Dell is new, it may wear off in a few days/weeks)

 

[kamcma]

It just got a lot harder for you: Apple killed support for the Atom processor in 10.6.2.

 

[ChilledoutUK]

honestly i dont understand teh love affair with osx just put windows 7 on there if you dislike the look of xp.

 

[edart]

OSX does still support the atom but it's reportedly flawed!

as for Windows 7 new netbooks come with the starter (basic) edition of 7 but it only runs 3 programs at any one time. I read a review where someone installed win7 ultimate on my model of netbook and aparently it ran very slowly, had poor battery performance and the aero interface wont work!

Thinking now maybe it's best to stick with XP.

Wondering what Linux will run like on my Dell? Though not sure what benefit that would give if any!

 

[dugq]

Quote:

Originally Posted by edart /img/forum/go_quote.gif OSX does still support the atom but it's reportedly flawed! as for Windows 7 new netbooks come with the starter (basic) edition of 7 but it only runs 3 programs at any one time. I read a review where someone installed win7 ultimate on my model of netbook and aparently it ran very slowly, had poor battery performance and the aero interface wont work! Thinking now maybe it's best to stick with XP. Wondering what Linux will run like on my Dell? Though not sure what benefit that would give if any!

There is no application limit on windows 7 starter edition

 

[barleyguy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kamcma /img/forum/go_quote.gif It just got a lot harder for you: Apple killed support for the Atom processor in 10.6.2.

No they didn't. All they do is check the CPU ID string, and if it says "Atom" they refuse to run. There's a simple patch that changes that string to "Core Solo", and everything works again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by edart /img/forum/go_quote.gif as for Windows 7 new netbooks come with the starter (basic) edition of 7 but it only runs 3 programs at any one time. I read a review where someone installed win7 ultimate on my model of netbook and aparently it ran very slowly, had poor battery performance and the aero interface wont work!

The starter edition isn't limited to 3 programs. That was a "feature" in the early beta versions that Microsoft decided not to go through with. Also, Aero works on GMA950's just fine AFAIK. All it needs is Directx 9 support.

EDIT: I confirmed on two sites that the GMA950 that is in most netbooks does support Aero. It needs Directx 9 WHQL drivers, which have been available for Windows 7 since June. It's possible the review you read is from a pre-release version which doesn't represent the current state of things. The performance issues might have been because of not enough RAM. Windows 7 really needs 2 GB.

EDIT: BTW, if you'd like to install OSX on your Dell Mini, go here: http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/

I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.1) on a Mini 9 and it's working perfectly. It's my primary headphone source, using an Icon Mobile as a USB DAC, and Songbird as a music player.

 

[edart]

Thank you for that link, I now have Snow Leopard 10.6.2 running on my Dell 10v

Any advice on free software for it?