[BNM] [OT]

[Alan Pike]

Does anyone have an old PPC mac mini 85W power adaptor I could borrow for a
few hours/a day? The rest of this is a bit dull/ranty, so stop reading now
if you're likely to get bored.I've been given an old mac mini by a client,
who had plugged the 18.5v output cable from the mac mini PSU into the 24.5v
output socket of the apple cinema display PSU when plugging everthing back
in after moving it  . . . spot the design flaw . . .  Apple were certainly
"thinking different" that day . . . and people use different shaped power
plugs for what reason?, or even, heaven forbid, sticking to a standard
mail/female plug orientation, but then, I suppose, you could try to power
the mini off the screen psu and vice versa. . .
Anyhoo, the mac mini PSU seemed to come off worst in the ensuing battle of
electrons (ie the screen  powers up but the mini doesnt), it appears to have
no screws to open it, the stoopid plug is such a bizarre shape that I cant
even get my voltmeter probes on the bleeping thing, so before I take a
hammer to it to see what's inside the psu, I thought the best thing to do
would be to borrow a mac mini psu . . . to 1. make sure the psu is actuially
fritzed, and 2 check the mini is still functional . . .
Screen's nice tho' . . .
And while we're on the subject of "thinking different" can anyone tell me
wtf is the point of what appears to be a 2 inch DVI to DVI extension cable
that came with a clients mac a few years ago and ended up in my box of bits
because I thought, that'll come in handy one day, what for I don't know. And
I still dont. But i just got it out thinking it might be a DVI to VGA
converter . . . errr, that'll be a no then. just a very short extension . .
. don't get me wrong, love mac stuff, but sometimes I just think . . . .
why?
. . . and breathe.
Ta.

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