The Mic on the new iMac rocks!

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Rockee
I had a CD stuck in my new iMac, so I looked through the book that came with it. I first found out that you should not try and shove a paperclip in the little hole on the iMac's screen to get a CD out, because that's the iMac microphone! I found out how to get the CD out, but just now I decided to into iMovie and record my voice and check if I completely destroyed the microphone with my paperclip. Luckily it was perfectly fine, but I discovered that the iMac's mic rules! It's crystal clear. All the Mac’s I’d had before weren’t this clear. It’s pretty cool.:)
 
Uh, for future reference, the paperclip hole is physically linked to the eject mechanism for the drive. So the hole in the screen can't possibly be the hole for the drive eject.

The real advantage to this is when the drive fails completely (or the power is out ;) ) and you really want that disc...
 
I know. I feel so stupid for even thinking that might have been the manual eject button.:p

It ended up being holding down the mouse button while it starts up.
 
Holding down the mouse-button during the first few seconds of startup (while your Mac is looking for an OS), will cause your Mac to eject any floppy or CD disks/discs... old Mac trick.
 
Whoa. Flashback. I remember holding down the mouse button while booting the original macs back when I was a kiddie, in order to eject a floppy.

Ahhh, nostalgia.
 
I can't stop imagining someone trying to ram a paperclip into the mic hole. AHAHAHA! That's good stuff....:D
 
I tried using my cd tray as a cupholder once...

JK

The mouse-down trick didn't work for me the other day. Neither did "eject cdrom" from open firmware, and since the superdrive iMacs don't have that little paperclip hole thingy, I had to take my iMac to an Apple retail store for them to fix it overnight. They had to gut the iMac and then reassemble it.

Sheesh.

At least they were quick about it, but still, how ridiculous is that? To have to take your computer in to have a CD ejected?

Sorry, that's not what this thread is about--but I'm not sorry enough not to hit Submit Reply. =)

-Rob
 
Y'know why the mic is so clear? It's right at the surface for starters and second with out a fan recordings tend to loose that insistent "hum" that sounds miraculously like a... fan! ;)

Later
 
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