Apple's small form factor desktop computer. It first debuted on January 22, 2005.
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2010 Core 2.4 GHz Mac mini RAM Upgrade
I have a mid 2010 Mac mini 2.4GHz with 2GB of RAM.
I want to upgrade the RAM to 8GB.
Willing to buy this RAM:
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Can I use my UK Mac Mini (Mid 2010) in the US?
I'm from England and I'll be going to the US and I'd like to take my Mac Mini (Mid 2010) (not the newest version).
My main question is: would it be safe to use over there?
I'm worried because of the ...
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External SATA PM (Port Multiplier) Enclosure w/ Mac Mini
I'd love to use one of the new Mac Mini Server models as a backup server, but need a lot more space.
Has anybody tried attaching a port multiplied eSATA enclosure to the Mini? This is the one I'd ...
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Mac Mini won't wake after sleep with Mountain Lion
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini with Mountain Lion installed. I have had the Mini for around 6 weeks and am using as a media server.
When the Mini goes to sleep (either automatically or by manually ...
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Max OS X: White saturation is terrible
i have a Problem. Here's my story: I bought a new LCD-Monitor: Acer S235HLBbmii.
I had Windows 8 till today. The colors with windows (and this monitor) were very good. All tests on this website are ...
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Builtin VNC stops working after waking headless Mac mini from sleep (black screen)
I'm running a Mac mini (late 2012) with OS X 10.8.2 as a media center PC and streaming server. It's not running 24/7 - instead I'm using a schedule to wake it up in the evening and putting it back to ...
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Are the two SATA bus interfaces in the 2010 Mac mini equal in speed?
I want to replace the DVD in my old 2010 mac mini with a SSD but first I would like to know if the two SATA interfaces are equal when it comes to speed.
I would prefer to keep the harddrive on the ...
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Using a Mac Mini at 1920x1200
I got a Mac Mini at about summer in 2011 and I'm looking to use it along with my main PC using a Dell Ultrasharp U2412M monitor. The monitor's DVI is used by my main PC, so I picked up a Mini ...
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Cannot reinstall OSX Mac mini 6,1
I've been trying to install Ubuntu server on my Mac mini 6,1 with no success.
However now I'm stuck and can't even reinstall OSX from a USB key. I've created it on my MBPr, and tested it there : it ...
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My OS X Mac Mini server crashed - How can I restore it?
I have a 2011 Mac Mini Server. It is the unibody model that has two hard drives and no optical drive. I got this second hand so I don't have anything other than the machine itself.
The way I ...
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Mac mini, two monitors over hdmi and Thunderbolt simultaneously
Will the new Mac Mini (mid-level, quad-core) support the following two
monitors simultaneously: one an Apple Cinema Display 30", 2560x1600
resolution, connected to both the Thunderbolt port and one ...
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Can I use the screen (and keyboard) of a separate laptop with a Mac Mini?
At the moment, I really need a Mac to run Logic Pro, and I reckon my cheapest option is getting a Mac Mini.
It would be very convienent if I could use the screen (and optionally keyboard) of a ...
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How to fix Mountain Lion that is very slow after sleep by timeout?
I have updated to Mountain Lion on Mac Mini (mid 2011), and now my Mac is very slow after sleep. I am waiting for several minutes before the next selected program is working properly.
I have tried:
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My Mac Mini doesn't wants CD
I had a Mac mini. Then the HD broke. So I took an HD from an old Windows notebook. I moved this HD from the Windows notebook to the Mac mini. Now Mac mini correctly starts with Windows XP (what a ...
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Connect to MySql over Airport Wireless LAN
I have installed MySql on a Mac Mini that I want to use as a dev database server. I have created a toy database on the server. I have created a wireless network using Airport. I now want to connect to ...
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After upgrading Mac mini to Mountain Lion, the display is not working
I had my Mac mini connected to a TV using VGA (with the mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter) running fine. After upgrading to Mountain Lion it simply doesn't work anymore.
I wasn't using any software ...
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Problem installing Mac OS X Lion on Mac Mini
I am installing Mac OS X Lion on a Mac Mini (c2d, 2GB RAM). The installation goes fine, until it rebooted. After rebooting, it shows the following screen for almost 3 hours. The progress bar does not ...
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Mac mini built in speakers do not play all of sound
I've a rather odd issue I've noticed while playing this song on Youtube:
When using the built-in speakers I only hear the background singing (a bit hard to describe: sometimes I hear almost nothing, ...
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2011 Mac Mini not working with included HDMI to DVI adapter
I've got a brand new Mac Mini with a peculiar video issue. It just won't show video using the included HDMI to DVI adapter.:
I've plugged this Mac Mini and adapter into three separate DVI monitors. ...
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Mac Mini has loud fan, won't power up
My intel-based mac mini (Model A1283, EMC 2336) refuses to boot. When I plug it in, the fan spins up very loudly, but then nothing happens when I hit the power button. I don't get a boot chime, and ...
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5.1 surround sound via optical out without receiver
I have a 2010 Mac mini and I would like to output 5.1 surround sound from it.
The optical audio out is the way to achieve this, but I don't want to have an audio receiver, 5 times bigger then the ...
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Mac Mini won't boot. Is it the monitor or the Mac?
I just bought an old Mac Mini to start developing for iOS. The Mac Mini has a DVI port, so I connected it to my Dell 24" display which has a DVI connection. But it appears that my Mac wont boot. I ...
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Usable Resolution limited on Mac Mini
Since a few days, i have a limited Screen resolution, resulting in a black bar on the top and the bottom of the screen. When starting up in safe-boot, there is no prolbem. The display dialog let's me ...
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IR won't activate screen on 10.8.3 Mountain Lion Mac Mini
I use my Mini for home theatre, but the IR won't active the screen.
Using Screen Sharing will activate the screen.
I see others have reported this issue with 10.8.2 that went away with 10.8.3. Alas ...
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Real sleepmode WITHOUT hibernation
As the most people, I also googled after setting the hibernatemode, and found the following command:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
... which should enable the RAM-only sleep mode. I also deleted ...
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Fusion Drive not moving data back to SSD - anyone encounter this?
I'm about to buy a Mac Mini and have got the DIY Fusion Drive parts handy. I'm actually a bit on the fence about the choice of manual SSD+HDD separation with the aid of symlinks and proper Fusion ...
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Can the 2011 Mac Mini support 3 displays with DP 1.2 chaining?
Dell u2713H monitor supports Daisy Chaining. as one of the first monitors I've seen that uses DP 1.2 protocol. In essence, I'm asking if thunderbolt supports / enables / works with DP chaining, but ...
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Mac Mini 2011: Blurry font at native resolution on Mountain Lion
I have a Mac Mini 2011 with the Radeon 6630m connected to a Samsung 226BW through HDMI to DVI and I'm dual-booting Mountain Lion and Windows 7.
My problem is on OSX, the font seems a bit off and I ...
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How to identify the 3 thermals sensor connectors from the mac mini motherboard?
I opened my mac mini to switch the DVD with another hard drive and I forgot to take a picture with the ways the 3 thermal sensors are connected.
THeir codes on the mainboard look like:
J5550 - left ...
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print option lost after Mountain Lion upgrade
After I recently moved my data from a Mac Mini '09 to a new Mac Mini with Mountain Lion, I find my print options no longer allow me to print "fast" (on Canon pixma mx712). The print quality options ...
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What is software dolby-decoding DAC solution on mac-mini?
My HDTV hasn't stereo audio out, but has Optical out only.
So I connected its audio out to my mac mini and play thru on stereo out using rogue aomeba linein. ( http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ )
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“This version of OSX is not supported on this platform.” when booting 2012 Mac Mini with SSD drive from previous system
When trying to boot a 2012 Mac Mini (purchased from apple.com) with the SSD drive from my previous system (a 2009 MBP), I get "This version of OSX is not supported on this platform". The version of ...
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Booting internally from a harddrive that was used on a different Mac
I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini wont boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin ...
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Why my screen switched off a few times without any reason?
I have new Mac mini for a few weeks. Lately I noticed something strange. From time to time, during regular usage (web browsing, reading PDFs, listening to music etc.) the screen turned black for a ...
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Mac Mini Keeps freezing and have to manually power down and restart
I have a mac mini 2.3Ghz Intel Core i5 running 2GB 1333 MHz DDR3. The mac keeps freezing. Sometimes while I'm working on it, but often just when I leave it and it won't wake up and I have to hold ...
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Mac mini Apple bluetooth keyboard DELETE key can't do 'backward delete'
I have mac mini and I bought an original apple bluetooth keyboard from ebay. The problem is that the DELETE key always do 'DELETE' action and not 'Backspace', even if I use the function key with it. ...
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Mac Mini Bridging to WiFi Network
I have a Mac Mini (Mountain Lion) connected to a WiFi network, getting a DHCP address from the router (ASUS N-16 Tomato).
In addition, I have a headless Ethernet-only appliance (Arch Linux ARM) which ...
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Mac Mini won't start
I got a 2007 Mac Mini off eBay a year ago. Now it won't start. It will show the Apple logo and then when it gets to the blue screen where it would normally show the desktop, the DVI cuts out.
I have ...
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How can I stop my iMac's remote management connection from defaulting to wifi?
I have two Mac computers that I connect to using Screen Sharing and when the Mac Mini's wifi is disabled I get great performance out of it. The problem that occurs is when I enable wifi on the Mac ...
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Mac Mini - Installing Windows 7 from external CD/DVD drive - hangs before installation with black screen
Really wanted to get Windows 7 working on my Mac for some Windows-specific applications.
Essentially, I followed all instructions after having updated my Mac's EFI Firmware, and have been left with a ...
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Funcionality of macmini applications
I just recently bought a mac-mini server and love it. It currently is being used in a small work environment for communication purposes and storage/backup use. However I have noticed that there is a ...
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mac mini server installation fails
I am trying to reinstall a clean copy of Leopard Server on my Mac mini server. I have erased both disks and tried to reinstall the OS, but it's always stuck at 36 minutes.
The installation ...
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Will upgrading my 2007 mac-mini from Tiger to Snow Leopard be a performance upgrade?
I'm cleaning my old 2007 mac-mini and am wondering whether I should upgrade it to Snow Leopard while I'm at it?
I want to do this only if this will be any performance upgrade.
Note that I have ...
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Mac won't boot with new RAM installed
I have a Mac mini (Macmini3,1). I was origionally told that, at most, it can only take 4 GB of RAM. When I bought the Mac it had 2 GB so I went to Fry's and got 2x 2 GB sticks.
Here is the info on ...
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Plug headphone not support with macmini
I have a Macmini 4,1. I tried to use plug headset with mic for skype call, but it doesn't work.
I can hear the voice from the other end, but my voice can't be heard on the other end. I tried with two ...
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Which Mac mini with 3 USB controllers can be recommended for high bandwidth USB traffic?
I'm currently looking for a Mac mini for development. I know the FAQ says no programming, but please bare with me, there's nothing related to code in my question.
I will need to connect 3 Kinect ...
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External Hard drive automount problem
I have a Drobo hooked up to my intel mac mini mounted to /Volumes/Drobo, although after a poweroutage the Drobo now automounts to /Volumes/Drobo 1. I unmount it and mount it back on /Volumes/Drobo so ...
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File path to file on Mac Mini via LAN
I have a bunch of data files on a Mac Mini that I want to read over my wireless LAN in a script (F#, not that it matters I think). I can see the files in Finder, but don't know how to read them in a ...
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Which microphone is compatible with Mac mini?
I searched a lot and I am still in doubt about which microphone to use in MC815BZA Apple Mac mini with Inte Core i5 2.3GHz, 2GB, 500GB HD, HDMI and Bluetooth.
What microphone will work with this ...
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Can I use iPad/Airport/Mac Mini as a development network?
I am thinking of getting a Mac Mini as an inexpensive development server. I want to install MySql and get up and running quickly. Can I :
Use my existing AirPort to create a wireless LAN so that my ...
