Re: New Player - Low Profile Intel DH61AG mini-ITX
Q - Power Managment?
A - Do not know yet - part of the fine tuning to come.
Q - Two Sata and Optical drives?
A - There are only two SATA ports on board. Anyone thinking of loading this board up should study the Intel docs and plan the power budget. I am prepared to stop buying and installing an optical drive in every box and I am moving away from internal 3.5" drives, so this board suits my needs.
Q - HPET in the BIOS
A - I did not find a setting, but it was a couple of quick passes through.
Q - BIOS settings
A - Just the normal SATA to AHCI and a new one, UEFI I think, needed to be selected for OS X to boot.
Q - UniBeast vs a shortcut
A - I have not done a UniBeast yet. I have a home made USB Installer which is a clone of the xMove generated 10.7 installer with an Easybeast /Extra folder and Chimera. But moving LION images around, I have found a cloned 10.7.2 drive to be viable across most i-core CPU machines that I have tried. And the need for a DSDT.aml is greatly diminished with these new boards, new CPUs and LION. Sleep is over-rated as is power management. Look at the spec for the i3-2125 and you will see that Intel has left some of this detail of these lower end CPUs.
Q - HDMI audio
A - I personally not interested as my audio systems are not directly linked to HDMI output. So bringing this up is only of passing interest.
neil