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| Griffin 1040-PMT PowerMate - USB Programmable Multimedia Controller | 
 enlarge | Brand: Griffin
Category: CE
Buy New: £29.18
New (3) Used (1) from £29.18
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Cd
Platform: Macintosh
Color: fire
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
System Memory: 2.56E8
Memory Type: SODIMM
Hard Drive Size: 30000
Native Resolution: 640x480
Free Memory Slots: 2 dimm/ 2 DDR
Display Size: 66.92913385826772
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 3 x 7.5
This has everything. More features go here for CE Additional Features. - Feature 1 - Feature 2 - Feature 3 - Feature 4
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MPN: 1040-PMT
Model: 3260-PMBK
UPC: 685387011001
EAN: 0685387011001
ASIN: B00006BINO
Release Date: July 26, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships from U.S.A., to anywhere in the United Kingdom! Orders only take 3-5 days! We specialise in service to the U.K. and only ship airmail.
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Product Description
PowerMate is the coolest volume knob your Mac has ever seen uand so much more. Use it to edit iMovies or scroll through longdocuments and web pages. Best of all PowerMate is an assignablecontroller. Program it to do anything you want in any app
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Not as useful as you'd think... May 21, 2008
I had high hopes for the Powermate, but it's nowhere near as useful as you'd think. Most applications use keyboard shortcuts, which require one hand to be over the keyboard... which sounds obvious but is the downfall of the Powermate. Moving your hand to the Powermate to operate a few selected functions, then moving back to the keyboard for everything else soon becomes annoying. After about 30 minutes, I found myself using the keyboard shortcuts and/or mouse, which is much quicker.
The Powermate has its uses, and may prove very desirable as a novelty controller, but the newer 3DConnexion Space Navigator is now a much more desirable (and functional) product.
Not impressed November 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i purchased this so i could us it in my Land Rover to operate my car pc all i wanted it to do was volume up,down next track,previous track and mute, but after various installs of software it turns out it i can only next and previous if im running i tunes well i dont have an i pod i convert all my cds to mp3. If like me you tend to run multiple programmes i run my music on one on road gps on the next screen and off road gps on another screen i was hoping i could use this knob to work my media files whilst displaying my mapping programmes but it didnt. I have contacted griffin but i dont hold out much hope.
 Useful and beutiful July 4, 2007
It's nice to see people making an effort to develop unique interface devices and this is a great piece of kit.
Solid build, lovely blue light (which matches all my other blue flashing peripherals!) and a really nice feel to it.
The obvious application usage for this would be things like volume, scrolling, video editing etc. But I hooked mine up for world of warcraft and found it really nice to use. Set the click option to autorun or 'numlock' and then just set left and right spins to turn left and right...you can then romp around the world with minimum of fuss and show off you're flashy new 'griffin wheel' as I've named mine!
There are some small issues with drivers etc, but these are not too tricky to resolve. On my work laptop I had to install the 2.0 version of the software to get it to work.
On my home pc, it wouldn't work via the USB port in my keyboard, but this could have been for two reasons. The port was only 1.1 and this may well need 2.0 to work as disired. In which case if you're looking to run it from a hub, make sure its USB 2.0.
The other thing which could have stopped it working is whether the usb port is powered. I'd be surprised if my keyboard port was powered, so this could have been the problem too.
Overall, a lovely piece of kit, and you'll find yourself thinking up new ways you can use it in you're existing software! The flexibility to assign it to any key is certainly good for application compatibility, and one of the best features is setting the lights pulse speed and brightness! :D
Perfect - just check your USB voltages first :) June 8, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This item works flawlessly - but not if your PC isn't up to proper specs.
This shouldn't affect ANY Mac users, as they can feel confident that their hardware is built properly by Apple (they're usually not the 'cheapest parts available' as you find with some other major name system builders), but for PC users you should ideally check to make sure your USB ports (whether built-in or on an added card) are not just dirt-cheap unbranded types putting out below-standard-spec voltages (this is a common problem despite there being standards for USB settled upon many years ago). You may also get similar problems with passive USB hubs.
I note that at least one review here mentions that there were endless problems with the Griffin on a WinPC, requiring endless reinstalls and refusing to work after waking from sleep etc. This is most likely to be a USB issue (I've seen similar problems with a high-end Dell server refusing to work with certain USB devices due to cheap components and got around it by installing a reasonably-priced USB PCI card supplying the correct voltages). Some devices draw a significant amount of current over USB and if your ports aren't up to this full spec or you're drawing power to a few devices over USB you can easily have issues like this. Another alternative workaround is to use an active USB hub - ie: a hub that has a power supply. It'll boost the power available to devices and should stop any of these annoying niggles.
It might be best to check your system before you purchase USB peripherals and think about upgrading your hardware to industry standards prior to complaining about a device not working... the chances are that it's not the individual device at fault at all! Hope this helps some of you (and helps you solve other issues you may have come across with USB).
 Needs a better driver for pro-audio use, otherwise good. October 12, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
While this widget is probably fine as a volume control for ordinary playback, I bought mine to use as a level control for various pro-audio applications. The problem is that the existing driver has very poor slope control at the bottom end of the range - instead of allowing you to fade the signal gradually down to nothing it gets to within 15% or so of zero and then simply switches to silence very abruptly. I understand that the next version of the driver will address this. I'll believe that when I see it, but in the meantime it gets three stars for being a good idea but loses two for having had its driver written by someone with a tin ear. The packaging process had also caused nasty kink in the cable near the knob end (so to speak) which is annoying and sloppy.
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