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<blockquote data-quote="jk2300" data-source="post: 50530" data-attributes="member: 20248">I'm using it with OS X for now. I'm planning on installing Windows &amp; mediaportal during the weekend to test whether the MS MCE remote works - no reason it shouldn't though, as long as you plug in the insanely ugly IR receiver to an USB port. If this works you should have no problem programming your Harmony as a standard MCE remote and using it with a Mac Mini. However, in my mind it won't get interesting before Windows drivers for the Mac mini IR receiver are released (if ever) so you can dispense with the MCE IR receiver.One problem is that the problem-free in/out of sleep mode is a feature of the hardware and OS X combined so I cannot see how you would implement that feature in Windows. In Windows the remote controlled S3 sleep mode can be achieved through a combination of jumper settings, bios settings and a windows registry addition. Macs have no BIOS and I'm not technical enough to even imagine how you would implement the Windows specific S3 mode on a windows-mac unless Apple releases drivers / software for that specific purpose, but I don't see that one coming for the foreseeable future (!!!).However, the Mac Mini is silent (!!) and uses a very limited amount of power. No fans are spinning etc so in actual use you would not have much need for the sleep mode in windows, cause you cannot hear it when it is turned on.Regards Jonas</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jk2300, post: 50530, member: 20248"] I'm using it with OS X for now. I'm planning on installing Windows & mediaportal during the weekend to test whether the MS MCE remote works - no reason it shouldn't though, as long as you plug in the insanely ugly IR receiver to an USB port. If this works you should have no problem programming your Harmony as a standard MCE remote and using it with a Mac Mini. However, in my mind it won't get interesting before Windows drivers for the Mac mini IR receiver are released (if ever) so you can dispense with the MCE IR receiver. One problem is that the problem-free in/out of sleep mode is a feature of the hardware and OS X combined so I cannot see how you would implement that feature in Windows. In Windows the remote controlled S3 sleep mode can be achieved through a combination of jumper settings, bios settings and a windows registry addition. Macs have no BIOS and I'm not technical enough to even imagine how you would implement the Windows specific S3 mode on a windows-mac unless Apple releases drivers / software for that specific purpose, but I don't see that one coming for the foreseeable future (!!!). However, the Mac Mini is silent (!!) and uses a very limited amount of power. No fans are spinning etc so in actual use you would not have much need for the sleep mode in windows, cause you cannot hear it when it is turned on. Regards Jonas [/QUOTE]

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