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zboy
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mac mini question

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Hey everyone if your turning a mac mini into a tablet could you install motion control like when you turn the tablet from vertical to horizontal so that the screen changes the same way?
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No, unless what you're using automatically does it. Macs don't have an accelerometer.
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Desktop Macs don't have accelerometers, but Macbooks do. If you want that functionality, make a tablet out of those (or buy a Modbook). Added bonuses: they're already designed to run on batteries and come with LCDs.
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bicostp wrote:Desktop Macs don't have accelerometers, but Macbooks do. If you want that functionality, make a tablet out of those (or buy a Modbook). Added bonuses: they're already designed to run on batteries and come with LCDs.
I didn't know Macbooks had accelerometers. That's kind of dumb to have for a laptop.
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Not really, when you think about it.

If the accelerometer detects the laptop is in free-fall, it spins the hard drive down and parks the heads so the drive isn't damaged on impact.
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kinjjibo wrote:No, unless what you're using automatically does it. Macs don't have an accelerometer.
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