New (6.2010) Mini and Subwoofer

I purchased the new Mini to be my media server and replace an aging laptop that was standing in. HDMI was supposed to be the key for me.
Unfortunately, I can't get the Mini to pass sound to my subwoofer.
My setup is a Sony DN1000 receiver driving JBL mains, center, and 2 surrounds, with a Martin Logan 700 as my sub.
Any recommendations??? I've searched the forums, but nothing specific enough to this issue, although I did try a few things I read.
I purchased the mini yesterday and watched Hulu on it last night, that was great. But tonight after trying to get the audio portion of it (the primary reason for its purchase) I am starting to doubt that it was worth the $$$.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the Mac. I suspect that a setting is wrong somewhere (be it on the mac, or the receiver).
You have the Mac connected directly to the reciver and not through a TV right?
Did you check that your Sony receiver is set to DEC AUTO instead of DEC PCM?
Have you tried different surround modes on the receiver, to see if it has an impact? For example, switching to Pro-Logic, DTS Neo, or even Stereo.
When you use the audio/speaker test in the MIDI control panel/app, and you click on the sub button, do you hear anything from any of your speakers?
Also, while the Mac is playing sound (that is devoid of sub sound), explore all the receiver settings/menus. The menu options will frequently be different, depending on the input signal being received. So do this exploring while the problematic source is playing. Especially check in the speaker settings, bass management and surround settings.
Lastly, if none of this works out, try taking the Mac to the house of a friend/relative who has a digital surround receiver and see what happens there.

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You have a "good WiFi connection". What does that mean exactly? Can you send and receive email and are other internet related activities working OK for you? Have you tried restarting or rebooting your iPad? Sometimes that helps. If nothing else, it's a good place to start.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
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Hello Everyone,
I am looking to purchase a new Apple computer and sign up for Creative Cloud within the next week and I have a few questions that should be answered before I proceed.
My wife and I own a business and we will be using the CS6 apps to create brochures, Constant Contact mailings, product package inserts, edit product photography for print and web use, and short HD how-to videos. We are not graphics professionals or power users and wont be doing anything too complicated.
Any help and answers will be greatly appreciated.
I will start with the hardware questions first:
I am trying to decide between the iMac and the Mac mini.
The iMac is a 2.7Ghz Quad-core Intel core i5 and comes with 4GB of memory that is expandable to 16GB, which I will do for sure. It comes with a Radeon HD 6770M graphics card with 512MB of GDDR5 memory(not upgradable), and a 1TB HDD that runs at 7200RPM. This unit meets the specs required.
The 2.5Ghz Mac Mini comes with 4GB of memory that is expandable to 8GB, I will also do this. It has a Radeon HD 6630M graphics card with 256MB of GDDR5 memory(not upgradable), and a 500GB HDD that runs at 5400RPM. This unit meets all the spec(I think) except for the speed of the HDD.
Question: Will the mini run the software without too much of an issue considering the speed of the HDD?
Question: Will the iMac run the software significantly better to justify the price difference?
I already have 1 mini(purchased 4 months ago, with the same specs listed above) and will be purchasing a second computer for my wifes desk. If the mini will run CS6 fine, that is great and we can save a few bucks. If my mini will not run CS6 well, I will get the iMac for her desk as she will be doing the bulk of the work in that regard anyway.
Now a couple of software questions.
After reading hundreds of reviews and forum posts over the last few days I have seen many people having this or that issue. It seems to me that most of the issues are because of upgrades from Lion to Mountian Lion after installing CS6 first or trying to open CS3,4,5 files in CS6.
If you want to know what issues have me concerned take a look at just this one forum:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/adobe-cs-apps-mountain-lion-no-known-issues.html
Similar issues are discussed in the Apple forums as well as many other places around the web.
I am not a computer professional but I know enough to maintain my systems and keep them running smoothly.
We do not have any Adobe software installed on my mini and will not be opening any files from previous versions of Adobe product in the new CS6 software. These will be a clean installs on pristine systems running fully updated Mountian Lion OS's on both machines and creating new files from scratch.
Question: Should I be expecting any issues like the ones I have read in the forums and blogs or are these just the normal things that happen when upgrading to new software with multiple hardware configurations?
My feeling is that we will not be having too much of a problem due to the clean installs and no files from previous versions.
Next up, the Creative Cloud(CC) FAQ states that you can install on 2 machines but can't open stuff at the same time.
Question: Does this mean we can't be using any CS6 apps at the same time or just not using the same app at the same time?
Example: PS and PS on both machines at same time = No, PS on one and Dreamweaver on the other at the same time=Yes?
The CC FAQ page says Adobe will add Lightroom 4 later in 2012 while the main CC page lists it as available now.
Question: Which is true?
My mini is registered to me, with my name, iTunes account, Apple ID etc.
Question: Do I need to do the initial set-up of the new machine with all my information to ensure the CS6 suite works on both machines? Do the computers need to be registered(as far as Apple configuration is concerned) to same person for them to work on one CC account or can I install CS6 on any 2 machines regardless of how they were initially set-up?
This may seem like a silly question but I want to avoid any problems before they happen.
Well, those are all of my questions at the moment. To anyone who made it this far in my looooong post, Thank You so much for your time. I appreciate your expertise and knowledge and hope that you can help me make this decision.
Cheers,
Alex Bogdan

Alex,
I'll try and answer your questions as best I can.
Qn 1 Which Mac.
Ans:- As I understand it both units will run Adobe CS6.
          Which one really depends on what you wand from CS6. If you are looking for high end demand and performance, then I would go for the IMac
          Your Specs for the Imac are right. However if you buy your IMac straight from Apple there are even higher specs.
          You can get:-
                              3.4 GHz i7 processor rather than the i5
                               2GB video card as opposed to a 1Gb video card.
                               Of course such a model will cost you more.
          In the end it is needs compared with money to spend. That is only a decision you cam make.
Q2:- Will the higher cost for the Imac justify copst.
Ans:- Again it depends on what demands you intend to make on the hardware and software.
          But I note you have a business and if that businees expects to high demand and high speedy performance then I suspect the Imac would be more able to provide your needs.
          Again only you will know the answer to that.
Q3:- Questions about CS6 reliability
Ans:- I have been with Adobe for way over 10 years.
         Speaking, only for myself, it is the most reliable software on the market.
          It is true that if you look down this form, like any other and I am thinking about the Apple discussions forum, you will find numerous instances of problems.
          Again this is only my opinion, but although all these problems are real for the individuals:-
          First it is not clear why they have the problem e.g. what have they done or not done.
          Second, they are in the minority of the total users using the hardware / software.
          The only problem I am aware of with CS6 is Acrobat X. I understand it has been sorted Adobe, however it cost me so much work I have removed it from my system and reverted to Acrobat 9
          So what I am saying is that there are only two comapnies I rely 100% on: They are Adobe and Apple.
         So if you are happy with my opinion I would not worry about Adobe CS6
Qn 4:- CS6 0n 2 machines.
Ans:- Yes you will not be able to run the same program similtaneosly.
           I believe, if it is important that you do run the same program together, that you can acquire a further licience from Adobe to do that.
           You would need to contact Adobe about that.
Qn 5:- Lightroom 4
Ans:- Lightroom is now available as part of Creative Cloud.
Qn 6:- Set up for individual machines
Ans:- I do not believe you do. Once you have set up your Creative Cloud account you go to the apps site and download the apps for each machine.
          Each machine downloads the apps and your machine and the apps are registered by Adobe.
         Here is something that you may want to know:-
          Because I was so unhappy loosing all the Acrobat data with Acrobat X I ended up deleting Acrobat X
          However as far as Creative Cloud is concered Acrobat X is still on my machine.
          It is not a problem for me because I am happy with Acrobat 9, it fullfils my needs and has not crashed and lost me all my bookmarks.
          However here is the point:-
          Adobe, when there was a problem with Acrobat X requested that no-one deletes the application.
         Though I do not know for certain I believe registration of the apps you have with Creative Cloud are registered with Creative Cloud in their database. Therefore were you to delete an app, it will still be registered with Creative Cloud and you will not be able to download a further copy even though the app is no longer on your    machine.
          Therefore it maybe not a good idea to delete an app when you no longer have a use for it. If you want it back I suspect you will have to contact Adobe Support
Personal Comment:-
          It is true many unfortunately have had all sorts of problems, including me with Acrobat X.
          That said, Creative Cloud in my view has been a major advance in how Adobe delivers software. I have no regrets with signing up to Creative Cloud and I expect to remain with it.
Hope all of that goes some way to answering your questions.

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In fact, the person I talked to, told me that people had been able to do it.
I just called Apple today (Sunday) and someone there told me to call on a week day so they can arrange the exchange or see if I qualify.
I paid 799 for the my mini including a ram upgrade so I think I can get the 2.5/4Gb/500Gb option that costs the same.
Has someone here be able to do an exchange of this kind?

I don't know why OceanDigital thinks it just the same mini without an optical drive, is adamant you should not upgrade or why it is bad to have two computers in one space ...
Please ignore what OceanDigital said. There is a significant increase in performance.
Here is a link with the test results from MacWorld about the speed differences between the previous and newer mini:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161306/2011/07/2011macminibenchmarks.html
A must read.
Going from a Core2Duo to a Core i5 or Core i7 is not an "insignificant" speed upgrade. It is a new architecture that at similar clock speeds can do certain tasks in half the speed.
As far as trading in / trading up. Some resellers do it. Apple will let you do it via their recycling page and give you a certain amount of $. Whether that sum is really worth it vs selling to a family member, keeping it in another room, ... is another topic.
Personally, I'd love to have the new mini - in the old form factor with optical drive, ideally - but it would be a significant improvement over our core 2 duo and core 2 quad systems from a couple years ago.

New mid 2010 Mini problems.......

I'm having a few problems with my new Mini.
For some reason, if I have say iTunes and Firefox running, when I'm using Firefox my menu bar is still showing all associated items for iTunes???
Also, over the weekend, I came to the lounge to watch a film on the mini and for some reason the mouse pointer was not showing? If I pushed the mouse to the left corner (where I have expose to show all windows) this would initiate expose but again no pointer?
I then noticed the door to my AV cabinet was shut and the Mini was very hot?
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For some reason, if I have say iTunes and Firefox running, when I'm using Firefox my menu bar is still showing all associated items for iTunes???
That probably means you switched to iTunes by accident, either by inserting a CD (which it will do automatically if your Apple menu -> System Preferences -> CD and DVDs is set to open iTunes upon disc insertion), or you closed iTunes window and Firefox just happens to be open in the background. Closing the window of an application does NOT quit the application for many applications. To quit the application go to the Application menu's Quit item. Until you actually switch to Firefox, and it is pointed to in the Dock as the active application, you will be in iTunes.
Also, over the weekend, I came to the lounge to watch a film on the mini and for some reason the mouse pointer was not showing? If I pushed the mouse to the left corner (where I have expose to show all windows) this would initiate expose but again no pointer?
Your Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Dock & Expose will give you shortcut corners to enable Expose. If you don't want to use those corners, disable them. The pointer will show if you bring it into the center of the screen.
I then noticed the door to my AV cabinet was shut and the Mini was very hot?
That's normally normal. See my user tip:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=716829&tstart=0
You should ensure the environmental conditions of the specs are met by the inside of the cabinet with enough ventilation.

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The HDD has 10.4.x (I think .11) on it, and I really need to get that drive as the booted volume to recover some system preferences etc, rather than just have it mounted as a slave (it does mount fine).
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Any insight on the booting issue (irrespective of OS)? If this drive were upgraded to 10.6, could the Mini boot from it via USB2, or is 1394a required?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
Apple - Support - iPad - Syncing
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I have a small working knowledge of Exchange and even less about Certificates.
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Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I have read many articles, (especially from exchangeserverpro), and have learned alot, but I am definitely a cert novice here.
The cert "error" on my internal Outlook Clients is a Security Alert for
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I have the self signed certificate that auto-installed with Exchange 2010, which points to the DNS Names:
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2010 server and everything was good internally.
For my external connection then, I exported the webmail.mydomain.com
from the old Exchange 2003 server, and imported it on the new Exchange 2010 server; (EMC\Server Configuration\Import Exchange Certificate (Actions Pane)). Ever since doing this, all Outlook clients, (2007 & 2010)
receive the Security Alert for mylocalservername.mydomain.lcl, but is for the
webmail.mydomain.com cert.
I have two certs on the Exchange 2010 server; one self signed and one not, (The non-self-signed purchased from a CA and thus the one I imported from Exchange 2k3).
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Non-Self-Signed, (webmail.mydomain.com, Purchased from CA)
IIS
Please let me know if there's anything glaring here that I'm missing, and if not, what you think the problem may be. Thanks very much.

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