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Pair this with the Mini-DVI to HDMI cable and you can hook up your laptop to your television and still have full surround sound. Every laptop is different although the late model Mac's have a built in mini-optical out in the headphone jacks so it is literally plug and play. I'm going to keep this simple. With one of these adapters, a toslink cable and a Optical cable switchbox (like 15.00, if that) I can hook up my MacBook to surround sound with ease. For a 40.00 investment (w/ shipping) , you are literally enhancing your computing experience.
It sounds fantastic through the optical connection. I use this to play music from iTunes on my iMac through a stereo system. Certainly worth more than the small price tag.
In fact, does not work at all. Tried to connect a creative notebook card to a optical speaker source as well as connecting other audio products and is not able to work. does not work as advertised. Buy something else.
The base of the tip broke, so now the whole tip wiggles, but surprisingly it still works fine. I bought this to use with the optical output on my new laptop, but it broke because of all the moving around that comes naturally with a laptop. I guess the optical fiber inside of the tip is flexible, while the black plastic casing around it is not.
They're both built into a single outlet, which means that the optical interface isn't your standard TOSLink/SPDIF-sized port. The Mini can output audio by both an RCA jack and offers optical output as well. But I couldn't sit by and not take advantage of feeding output directly to my home theater digital decoder.This TOSLink-to-MiniTOS adapter allowed me to convert one end of an existing Monster cable and hook it up to my Mini.
The quandry. My iTunes library sounded phenomenal on my full 5.1 surround system.These little guys were also priced just right, so I bought several of them just in case anything ever goes wrong with one. For anyone who's happened upon my review of the TOSLink-to-MiniTOSLink cable by Dayton, this review will sound pretty familiar and with good reason.
In this case, here's the situation: I recently bought an Intel Mac Mini and was faced with both a golden opportunity to improve the quality of my sound output, and a dilemma. I went two different routes in what I ordered, trying to cover all my angles in case one product turned out to be junk. I'm happy to say, both were great.
Overall, I'm very pleased I can take the Mini in a solid HTPC direction with this product.
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