Mac Mini Voice Commands

Does anyone use the Mac Mini voice recognition capabilities? I'm thinking about picking up a usb mic and trying them out, but I don't want to waste my time if it's a really lame feature. Please let me know.
Also, I'm interested in what voice commands folks might actually be using on a regular basis. Can they do anything cool?
Thanks in advance.

Yes they work pretty good. At least last time I tried it in Tiger it was way better than the voice recognition in Windows.
Only reason I don't use it more is that I don't want to look crazy by talking to my computer too much LOL!
But if you have RSI or cannot type it's quite useful and worth checking out.

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Meanwhile we wonder if this is really a hardware error. It all happened during writing a time machine backup.
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ANY IDEAS?
IS IT A SOFTWARE- OR HARDWARE ERROR?
THX IN ADVANCE!

BDAqua wrote:
I thnk Intenal 2.5" Drives for servers is silly, & Ithink the Minis & iMacs re poorly cooled.
I'd get Temprature Monitor & see what temps they're running.
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Thanks!
Best,
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There are none.
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-6002F
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I tried swapping with a Mechinal Harddrive, no luck.
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In most cases, if NCQ is enabled with a direct connect RAID configuration (like the internal Mac Pro bays) it does not provide significant additional performance. With some hard disk models having NCQ turned on will actually provide slower overall performance. You can see this when testing the HighPoint and Areca RAID controllers in the Mac Pro as they allow the user to turn NCQ off or on.
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Well, the thing is, I have a Mac mini Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz that, while trying to install Windows XP through bootcamp I accidentally deleted the Mac OS X disk partition, no harm there as I have a time machine backup, but now I'm trying to boot my OS X 10.6 disk to reinstall the OS but only Windows XP is starting up. I tried to startup with the keys option pressed but no menu to select the source it should boot. I also tried start it up with C pressed, I could hear the DVD spinning and the laser doing its job but only Windows XP boot up.
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