Apple release new Mac Mini with HDMI !

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Indeed :)

I am happy with my purchase

I have this late 2010 MacMini and have connection problems with my BV 7-40:

Whenever I boot the Mac, it always disable audio via HDMI and reverts to internal audio jack. So, I have to go into the OSX Audio/MIDI settings and change audio outputs back to HDMI.


Anybody else experiencing that? Any solution?

I don't quite have that problem ... or maybe I do but my usage patterns are different.

When I recently did an OSX upgrade I found the behaviour of the handling of HDMI and the internal jack had changed.

Now if OSX detects that the internal jack has an electrical connection (i.e. something is plugged in) it will default the sound to that output.

Apparently Apple's view is that if you have plugged something in then you want to use it, and so it switches the HDMI soundoff, whereas previously it would keep using the HDMI.

My (unhappy) solution was to unplug the minijack.

Since that unhappy discovery (I did post a warning here about that upgrade) I have "drifted" to the state of using my MacMini as a "black box" media server and accessing it via my Apple TV .......... see my reply to your other post.

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