On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:25:01 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
(in article
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> On Feb 27, 3:59 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:11:16 -0800, jamesgangnc wrote
>> (in article
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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.
>>
>>>>>> 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
>>
>>>>>> Or similar.
>>
>>>>>>> "Robert" <kurtis.bax...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>
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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?
>>
>>>>>>>> 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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>>>> - Show 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.- Hide quoted text -
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> We were talking about your claim that a mac can take any pc card
> because it has a pci slot. Specialized pci cards for the most part
> require drivers and there are lots of pci cards for pcs that won't do
> anything in a mac because the vendor didn't write a driver for the
> mac.
You might have been talking about that, I was talking about the subject,
which was that the OP had a Macbook that he wanted to connect a Logitech
z5500 to and couldn't do 5.1 surround, because, like almost all notebook
computers, both Mac and Windows, it didn't have surround-sound outputs. I
suggested one of a number of outboard USB or Firewire 5.1 surround-sound
adapters, and that these didn't need drivers on Macs.
I am aware that almost all PCI cards require drivers, but there are a
number
of cheap sound cards that sup****t the Intel-based Macs.
--
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
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