Dell Inspiron Mini 9 as a Transport

[postjack]

I'm looking to pick one of these $199 Mini 9's up tonight to take advantage of the sale. My primary use will be browsing the net in the den while listening to my speakers, but I would also like the ability to use it to do needle drops. Any suggestions for upgrades? I'm thinking the extra $25 for the 1 gig of ram is all I'll need.

Or maybe I could buy my own ram. Apparently its pretty easy to get installed.

[slwiser]

I'm looking to pick one of these $199 Mini 9's up tonight to take advantage of the sale. My primary use will be browsing the net in the den while listening to my speakers, but I would also like the ability to use it to do needle drops. Any suggestions for upgrades? I'm thinking the extra $25 for the 1 gig of ram is all I'll need.

Personally I would spend that on 2 gigs and put it in myself. 2 gigs is much better than 1 gig with the Mini9.

[padam]

Tried the Gamma-1 with MSI Wind and it was crackling badly, I guess something with USB power wasn't quite right. No problem with other notebooks. Maybe they aren't as ideal for the job as I had first thought?

[slwiser]

My Dell Mini9 is solid as a rock...playing JRiver Media into my Pico using ASIO4ALL setup as noted in the how to post on the other site.

[MoonShine]

My Dell Mini9 is solid as a rock...playing JRiver Media into my Pico using ASIO4ALL setup as noted in the how to post on the other site.

Link please? I have searched to no avail and I am curious to see what this is all about as I have a Mini 9 on order.

PM it if that is more appropriate (please).

[morphsci]

J River Mediacenter

The Media Center Version (V. 13.0) is about $40. Media Jukebox 12.0 is free. Go to the downloads page.

ASIO4ALL can be downloaded here.

You mustn't have looked very hard.

Edited March 27, 2009 by morphsci

[MoonShine]

J River Mediacenter

The Media Center Version (V. 13.0) is about $40. Media Jukebox 12.0 is free. Go to the downloads page.

ASIO4ALL can be downloaded here.

You mustn't have looked very hard.

Saw those, thanks.

Was looking for:

My Dell Mini9 is solid as a rock...playing JRiver Media into my Pico using ASIO4ALL setup as noted in the how to post on the other site.

[grawk]

Are you sure head-case is the site for you?

[MoonShine]

Yes, I have enjoyed it here so far.

I just wanted to read the post he was referring to and I could not find it even though I searched pretty extensively.

I suppose I should have just PM'd him for it, my bad.

[slwiser]

ASIO4All Explanation - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

This is the setup that works for me. Before there was a slight clicking every few seconds with ASIO but now, as I said, rock solid.

Make sure you get a 2 gig memory. My Mini9 works much better with the extra memory and I also have removed virtual memory since with 2 gig I don't every go that high using the Mini9 as a music server. My Mini9 has a second hard drive where I store all my programs setting in the microSD slot. It uses a hacked HP microSD driver that makes it appear as a hard drive rather than a removable one. So my internal SSD drive is setting there with 7 gigs open and the microSD is 16 gig in size. I am also using a 320 passport external USB drive to hold all my FLAC music files.

[MoonShine]

Awesome, thanks!

Very excited about this setup. Was considering doing the Hackintosh but this looks pretty sweet. That microSD Hack sounds brilliant.

I got the basic setup with the intention of upgrading the ram to 2 gig myself. I already have an external 500GB USB HD for storage and I have already downloaded the other stuff. Now I just need my Dell to show up.

Looking forward to playing around with it.