mac mini

I found this article the other day which suggests the mac mini might evolve into a media center type device. I have never even considered buying a mac mini, because I need something with a bit more grunt, but if it was useful as DVR/media centre/ etc. then I would snap one up in a second...

I wanna play doom. (i do not have a mac mini yet) i might just use my G3 for this but any suggestions?

Would I get a dramatic performance change? would it be worth it? or should i just get a mac mini?

Hi My wife has just bought a mac mini and her ethernet connection doesnt appear to be allowing her to connect to the internet (wired adsl router). The connection TCP/IP panel shows a working IP address and the fault finding / help wizard is positive until the internet and server parts are...

Hi, I have an old Laserjet IIIp I'm trying to use with a new Mac mini. Before realizing that tiger had gimp-print bundled with it I installed it separately, so maybe that's the problem. Anyway, I use the printer setup utility, and click add, and it shows me a USB printer (without a name...

Help! I've just bought a Mac Mini in Thailand - full price, from an authorised seller. But, on getting the thing home, I found that an admin account had already been set up, and the registration section already completed - both with someone's else's name (who apparently lives in Israel). The...

The combo drive has some bizarre plug that attaches itself to the standup ide board in the Mac Mini. I was wondering if anyone knows if there is an adapter that converts the signal from the bizarre plug on the standup ide board in the Mini to a standard IDE plug so I can use a normal, cheaper...

i have the 1.42 mac mini with 512mb ram, would it be more beneficial to upgrade to 1gb of ram or to a 5400rpm hd or upgrade to both? thanks

I bought a Mac Mini just to learn about this OS. But I'll admit I'm still a hardcore Windows (pc) user. The breadth of software out there still keeps me tied to Windows. Sure I like the Mac, its nice and all but now that I pretty much know OSX and all now, I cant find much use for this machine...

Help! My two-month-old Mini has occasionally been impossible to wake up after sleep (a known problem, I believe), but always woke up after a restart using the button on the back. However, I used it on and off last night, with it sleeping in between times and with it waking up OK except the last...

I have a Mac Mini running with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter so I can run a normal IDE hard drive. The IDE cable seems to be picking up hum. Its not 60 hz. Its quite a bit higher pitched. I'm not using the top - I was concerned about shielding so I popped it back on but not so the plastic clips...

I have a macmini (spec below) and have the chance to swap it with a Powermac dual G4 1ghz with 1gb RAM (quicksilver type), how would the Powermac compare against the macmini? I know it's got dual 1ghz processors but I presume they wouldn't be as fast as a single 2ghz?

I've had a B&W G3/350 Yosemite for ages, with two Argosy enclosures hooked up by FireWire. They've worked flawlessly. However, when I got a Mac Mini and hooked them up to it, strange problems show up. Seemingly related to disk activity, a drive will lock up and require for it to be rebooted...

Hi, Upgraded my G4 PowerBook's Superdrive with a new Pioneer Dual Layer model. No problems, all works well. Decided to use the redundant Superdrive as a replacement for my Mac Mini Combo drive. Install went fine but the system profiler just doesn't see the drive. Is there any magic I have...

I upgraded my internal cd drive on my mac mini to a pioneer dvd writer this weekend but also need to upgrade my HDD cos 40gb is nowhere near enough space, I've got an external 120gb caddy but I wanna upgrade my internal HDD, is 100gb the biggest drive I can install? also what sort of drive do I...

I have 4 Macs at home. I have installed 10.4 on them all. If I update to 10.4.2 on my Mac Mini it crashes. The update runs fine but when rebooted it will either Kernal panic on start up or just stop during the start up process. All my other macs update fine. I have even reformatted the HD and...

I'm new to the forum and hope someone can help me out - (BTW I did a search for "Mac mini" but got a blank screen in my Firefox and Safari browsers - is there something going on with the search feature on the forum site?) I have a friend with a Mac Mini, 80 GB HD. The drive information under...

I am going to be setting up a Mac OS X Server on a small network (about five clients) soon. It will need to provide DHCP/DNS, OpenDirectory authentication, AFP (for the users' home folders), and iChat to the local network. Maybe VPN. Possibly FTP to the internet. They haven't decided yet what...

hi! i am a mac newbie, so please dont shoot! i wish someone can tell me if i can connect the mac mini to my powerbook 1.67GHz? i sometimes need a monitor on the road, so i wonder if my 15" powerbook "screen" can be used as a "monitor" to the mac mini? DVI plug? S-video? what should i do...

hi! guys, i just bought a mac mini (1.47GHz, 80gb, 512mb) and i intend to buy it a 20" cinema display monitor ($800); right now i m still using it with an old monitor. The point is i just read u can connect a big screen TV and use it as a monitor, then the question... is this a good idea? if...