Griffin 1100-PWRMTS PowerMate/USB Multimedia Controller and Input Device

by Griffin Technology

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4.2 x 3 inches ; 7.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• ASIN: B000BZBDEQ
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,996 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 16, 2006

Product Description

PowerMate functions beautifully as a convenient volume knob and mute button for music listening on your PC or Mac. But that's just the beginning of PowerMate's possibilities. Edit movies just like the pros with PowerMate functioning as your very own Jog/

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty but Simple, April 22, 2010

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Bert Christianson (Iowa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Griffin 1100-PWRMTS PowerMate/USB Multimedia Controller and Input Device (Personal Computers)

This knob feels great, looks great functions great as a volumne knob. I really needed it for video editing as a shuttle knob and it did not work well. Software support was limited for Adobe Premier Elements 8 and even thogh I could program it for the editor it still had limited finess in the control. Turning the knob would move forward & back but not faster the farther I turned it. If you need a flashy pretty looking volumne knob it is swell, and now they support more then one on a system, Works with Windows 7 fine. Pretty blue light with variable intensity. But nix for videos editing. I returned it after an hour of testing.

Also as it was 3rd party and not direct through Amazon the return process has been very slow. 3 weeks and still waiting for refund.

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty close to completely useless, January 4, 2007

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JDB (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Griffin 1100-PWRMTS PowerMate/USB Multimedia Controller and Input Device (Personal Computers)

I think the other reviews have it nailed (search on the silver-colored version to see a complete list of reviews) - on the Mac it is of minimal usefulness - even as a volume control for iTunes, it ONLY works if you have iTunes in the foreground - which is an unlikely situation - usually you'd want to adjust volume or mute iTunes playback (i.e. for a phone call) when you were working in another application. If you have to click on iTunes to bring it to the foreground, why not just click on the control to mute.

On XP, as other reviewers have noted, the driver is buggy and hasn't been updated since 2004. If you are lucky the PowerMate will work for a few minutes - usually it does nothing at all in any application (oh - except glowing and pulsing!). Completely useless.

The Keyspan digital media and iTunes remote controls ARE able to control iTunes in the background - on both Mac OS X and XP - and they are what I use now in place of the useless PowerMate.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for laptop users, December 2, 2006

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Daniel D. Briere (Mansfield Center, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Griffin 1100-PWRMTS PowerMate/USB Multimedia Controller and Input Device (Personal Computers)

I use my Dell laptop docked into a docking station. I leave the laptop closed because I want to use my bigscreen monitor. However, when the laptop is closed I no longer have access to the volume controls. This is the only product I've found to provide external volume control. While it can do a whole lot more for power users, I'm a simple guy with simple needed. Let me turn off the volume quickly when the phone rings or the wife comes in. This works perfectly for that application and worth the money alone. All the extra stuff is gravy. I had no problems installing this, but others have reported some issues. I think this product has probably just matured with age and simply works now. I love it.