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Creative Drivers, Vista, and God

By Dan | Published January 12, 2007

Thus far, the Creative Labs Vista Audigy drivers have been pretty crap. I frequently get bursts of static over any audio, and only a reboot of my Media Center will fix it. But they’re betas: I can cut them some slack.
Yesterday, up popped a nice dialog box stating that my drivers would expire tomorrow, and [...]

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Vista RTM is fine on the Mac Mini

By Dan | Published November 30, 2006

I’m pleased to say the RTM release of Vista installs and runs without any problem on the Mac Mini. Glass was enabled on first boot, my network connection was up and running immediately, and the system itself seems to be very snappy. I can’t comment on sound or Media Center performance yet – I only [...]

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Vista RC2 + Mac Mini = Failure!

By Dan | Published October 12, 2006

As reported by TUAW here, Vista RC2 doesn’t work on the Mac Minis. Or at least, it doesn’t work on mine. I’ve heard reports of some Mini users getting the install to work with no problems. On my machine, the Vista installation routine doesn’t like the smell of the partition that Bootcamp creates, and refuses [...]

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Mac Mini + Vista Success

By Dan | Published September 2, 2006

I’d heard that the Pre RC1 release of Vista (build 5536) ran happily on Intel Macs so, having been looking for an excuse to try Boot Camp, I gave it a go.
I had two issues. The first involved the firmware on my Mini. Even though Software Update displayed no additional updates, Boot Camp insisted that [...]

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