Time to Step Up and Hand Down

It looks like I upgraded the Mini 9 to just where I wanted it to be right on time to pass it on to my wife.

Right about the time that I got all of the upgrades installed in the Mini 9, my wife was really itching to get an ultra portable herself and she just happened to get a nice little bonus at work. So we purchased a Mini 10v from our local Sam's Club.

The 10v I got is one of the ones with the 1024x576 screens, so OS X doesn't immediately recognize the video chip as a standard it is used to. This meant that I had to stumble my way through 640x480 for the install program. I had to use the tab key and the space bar and a lot of trial and error to get through all of the screens and finally get the installation process started. I believe it literally took longer to get through the set up screens than it took for the install process to complete.

Once the install process was completed and I installed DellEFI OSX rebooted in 1024x576 and almost everything worked perfectly. I had sound from the built-in speakers, but none of the audio in ports worked (neither the webcam's mic or the mic jack).

All of the software titles that I installed on the Mini 9 installed on the 10v without any problems. I attempted to install Adobe Photoshop, since I had a hard drive in the 10v, but discovered that without 1024x768 resolution you cannot install any Adobe title. The only other problems I ran into was when I tried to run Photo Booth to take a new user picture for my login and iChat avatar I got the message that the program couldn't load because it did not recognize the video chip in my computer. I got the same message when I tried to run Aperture.