Getting started with Mac Intel...

OK so I bought this cool little box - having read that it had limitation because of the Intel Chips, but I figured I was not going to be using Adobe products at home.

Set up was a breeze. I had my old LCD BenQ FP767, my wireless Microsoft keyboard/mouse, and my home network cable broadband. I installed MS Office Mac with no probs.

Then the problems began to pop up:

Boston Acoustic Speakers: I have these BA735 Digital speakers that are awesome. I have saved my sound card from that old computer so that I can use them on my PC. HOwever, that PC broke so I want to use those speakers on my new Mac Mini. No luck. I have posted on the MacUserSG Forum and the Apple Forum for help. No answer yet.

Safari: The Safari version that came with it did not run well. ACtually the Flash could not play on it unless I changed the setting to "run on Rosetta" or something like that. I posted on MacUserSG and got help (see above). Anyhow, there is a download that has resolved this.

Internet Camera: Still the biggest pain the butt. I have these cool DLink wireless cameras (DCS5300G and DCS2100G) that I have set up to monitor my house for a year now. They have their own web server and streaming video servers (with sound!). So my wife and I and my extended family have been watching from various part of Singapore and the world. So guess what? I can't see it because the camera servers use ActiveX. So I have stumbled onto an open secret - ActiveX only works on Microsoft Windows PERIOD.

So off I go to look for Virtual PC for MAC to see if I can bypass this ActiveX thing. Guess what? Virual PC does not support Intel Mac... yet. (see here)

So next I went onto to my online banking...