mac mini

I am a retired Graphic Designer, but now I want to re-start a freelance career/business. My present equipment is so old, and the operating system is so out-of-date that I find I need to start over. I’d like your advice on my tentative plans to purchase a new M1 Mac Mini, (with a new keyboard...

I'm trying to use a Logitech Craft keyboard and an MX Ergo mouse on 2 Mac minis - a 2012 model and a 2018 model. The 2012 mac mini recognises both mouse and keyboard without issue. The 2018 model 'forgets' the keyboard after a restart necessitating the removal of the device from the bluetooth...

I would like to upgrade my 2012 MM OS X 10.8.5 with an SSD sometime but, I have pretty slow internet connection. 2 GB SD movies from iTunes download anywhere from 4 (fastest) to 8 (slowest) hours. I am wondering if I can download OSX 10.8 via Internet Recovery with my early 2008 MBP OS X 10.8.5...

Does anyone know if the Logitech c920 plays nice with the macmini? I'm seeing lots of conflicting information scraping the web for a webcam. I need more for video conferencing than how to vids, but I may want to do some of those in the future. And, it seems the mic is also "iffy" so I assume a...

I just received my Dell U2412M with a 3rd party MiniDisplay port. Previously I had been using a Dell 2209WA connected to the MM via the HDMI port. I want to use the 2412 as the main display so after I set it up the Desktop showed up on the 2209 display. I switched the cables between the displays...

I'm considering buying a current Mac Mini (late 2012) to replace my late 2009 MacBook Pro. I'd like to know if the on-board Intel HD Graphics 4000 will simultaneously support both a 1080p monitor and a Wacom Cintiq 12WX? I know I can attach both using the HDMI and Thunderbolt connections...

I started having problems on my Mac Mini when I first got it. I would get grey screens and blue screens appear when typing for extended periods of time. A reboot would always take care of the problem. Eventually, after 3 times to the Genius Bar, I gave up. Then I started not being able to...

Reference > Mac Mini A1176 Following a hard drive failure, i put a new hard drive into my mac mini using one of the online guides. It seemed to go very well and I'm good at following such things and tech savvy. The drive was a working one from another mac mini (which was replaced to increase...

Hi the mac mini no longer comes with a kensington security slot which is rather annoying. I was wondering if anyone had tried the security frame from tryten (or any other) and whether its slot handles kensington locks (I have a Kensington chain to attach to it) thanks Zag

Thinking of buying a new Mac in the next half year (just to avoid them releasing new and shiny hardware a week after I buy something), and I'm stuck between an iMac and a Mac Mini. iMac was my first choice, but price is an issue and it seems judging by CPU I will get more power out of a Mac...

I have a mac mini 2010 model with snow leopard. I use the mac mini ONLY in my recording studio and just to record music with garageband. I have an external hard drive I want to hook up to the mac mini so I can store my music on it and now use up all my internal hard drive space. Can someone...

Hi All, I have a Mac Mini 2.4Ghz IC2D and I use two USB external sound cards for radio broadcasting and music production. In the USB ports I have a Behringer Xenyx X1622USB mixer and a Digidesign MBox 2 Mini. The other two ports are occupied by an External HD and a USB hub for my mouse &...

Hi everybody! I have a mac mini 2010 and I want to use it as an itunes server and an htpc. It is plugged into my led hdtv trough hdmi, every seems to be working fine except when I watch an hd video: every now and then, a frame will freeze for about a second but the sound continues. My tv is...

My Mac Mini keeps crashing, and it's crashed three times today, and it felt hot each time it's crashed, so I disconnected it and put it in the freezer for a while to cool it off, because if I tried to restart it after it crashed it would just crash again, unless I cooled it in the freezer first...

I have an early Intel Mac Mini. Use it as my main desktop machine running 10.6.5. It's about two and a half years old (I think!). This morning on startup a brief "Low Battery" warning box appeared on the screen. The box did not have a Cancel box and quickly faded away. Has anyone else...

I'm looking at buying a new mac for work (I work as a graphic designer) and I'm looking at the following machines as I really could do with upgrading my old G5 to an Intel, but it needs to be one which will still run Leopard (Snow Leopard doesn't agree with my printer and a few of the...

I have an aging G5 from 2004, specs: Model Name: Power Mac G5 Model Identifier: PowerMac7,3 Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Processor Speed: 2 GHz Number Of CPUs: 2 L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 1 GHz Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1 Not sure how...

Question: I'd like to see and operate BOTH my Mac Mini and my G4 Tower on the same monitor and keyboard, but I'm not sure that's possible. I'd like to do this so I can take advantage of the OS 9 (Classic) mode on the Tower, and to transfer files and apps back and forth. I found the following...

I have an intel Mac mini whose hard drive (60GB) appears to have failed. It would not boot and could not find boot information so I used the disc utility and every time I tried to reinstall OS X it would fail. So I went and bought a 500 Gig Toshiba drive but when it comes up in the Disc Utility...

Hello, I've currently got a Dual 2.5Ghz G5 with 5gb RAM, and I'm thinking about replacing it. I'm thinking about a mac mini, has anyone got any advice? I use my G5 for graphic design (photoshop, quark, illustrator etc) and internet. the main reason for thinking about a mini is obviously the...