On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:11:16 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
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> On Feb 26, 5:19 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:42:00 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
>> (in article
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>>> On Feb 26, 3:30 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:13:12 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
>>>> (in article <13s84373qjuk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> The headphone jack is only going to provide stereo, or at best
analog
>>>>> surround. You need to get a digital output from your mac and not
from
>>>>> something that hooks to the headphone jack either. Taking the
analog
>>>>> signal
>>>>> from the headphone jack is never going to get you back to digital
5.1. I
>>>>> don't know squat about macs but you probably should have gone to the
>>>>> apple
>>>>> store. After you shelled over the appropriate bucks then they will
fix
>>>>> you
>>>>> up. Gotta love that proprietary apple stuff.
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>>>> Apple "stuff" isn't very proprietary these days. In fact, they
sup****t
>>>> all
>>>> of the modern standards that your standard Windows laptop sup****ts
and
>>>> then
>>>> some (Firewire is standard, for instance). What you need for most
laptops
>>>> (Windows or Mac) is a USB to surround-sound processor in order to
connect
>>>> the
>>>> Logitech system. IOW, one of these:
>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/2fqgtm
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>>>> Or similar.
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>>>>> "Robert" <kurtis.bax...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> Hi all,
>>
>>>>>> I purchased the logitech z5500 5.1 system and i'd like to hook it
up
>>>>>> to my macbook. i suppose with a dvd player or ps2, it's just a
matter
>>>>>> of getting an optical cable and plugging it in.. but i'm not sure
how
>>>>>> to go about doing it on a computer with only a headphone jack... do
i
>>>>>> just need the optical cable (called toslink?) and then get a
toslink
>>>>>> mini adapter and i'm all set? will this mini adapter work in the
>>>>>> headphone jack?
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>>>>>> Thanks a lot!!!!!!
>>
>>>> --
>>>> Do you know the difference between students like you, amateurs and
>>>> professional jazz musicians? Student bands and amateurs "almost"
swing!
>>
>>>> Fred Berry
>>>> Professor of Music
>>>> Stanford University
>>
>>> Yea, $80, swell. No-name pc sound card for $15. I'll stick to pcs.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but how are you gonna put a $15 no-name sound card into a PC
>> Notebook? Notebooks need outboard surround decoders too. There are
cheaper
>> ones, for the Mac and the PC. I chose the $80 one as an example because
its
>> FireWire.
>>
>> Oh, and I can put a $15 PC sound card into a Mac tower too because it
has
>> -wait for it- PCI card slots just like a Windows box!
>>
>> --
>> Do you know the difference between students like you, amateurs and
>> professional jazz musicians? Student bands and amateurs "almost" swing!
>>
>> Fred Berry
>> Professor of Music
>> Stanford University- Hide quoted text -
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> Oh wait, you need drivers too? That's too bad. Yea, mac wants to be
> a pc but it just can't.
Actually, the Mac doesn't need drivers for the USB or Firewire 5.1 decoder
(
a Windows laptop needs that outboard decoder too). But I notice that you
ignored that point.
Macs and PCs are just two sides of the same coin. One has advantages in
one
area while the other has advantages in other areas. Mac has the better OS,
in
my not-so-humble opinion, but Windows has more of the popular business
software titles. I'm pretty system agnostic and use both. A computer is a
tool, not a religion.
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