The mac mini is basically a laptop without a screen and no keyboard or mouse included. You would think to yourself, who the heck is going to use this thing? However, this computer uses less electricity than most light bulbs, works sublimely well, and of course uses the mac os x operating system, which means unix at its core. Therefore, anything that can be done on a unix computer, can be done on this one. Well, as I have found, having a mac mini and working as a home jack of all trades server provides loads of great advantages. You can setup that computer to share your music over the internet, provide a large photo album site, even talk to your roomba, or play movies on your new 42' flat screen tv. Let you're imagination go wild! I've segmented this into loads of other instructables and grouped them together as one cohesive group. Each instructable is mostly independent, so you choose which ones you like. Apple also announced an updated desktop computer, the Mac Mini, starting at about $800. The company said both Macs will use aluminum left over from producing iPads and other products. On the upside, you can use the DVD or CD sharing feature of the Mac mini's operating system to wirelessly borrow the optical drive of a nearby Mac or PC. In other words, you can install applications from CDs or DVDs without having an optical drive in the Mac mini. Read on to learn more about Mac mini specs. I will probably continue to always be updating these, so post in the comments what other information is needed in each one. This part of a compendium. Check out the other parts at. First thing is first, you need a mac mini. In order to make the most out of this computer and especially for the upcoming updated system software that apple is releasing, I would recommend you stick with the intel mac minis. For my money, I found the best deal on apple's refurbished store. People somehow believe that their 4 year-old mac mini with a power pc chip is still worth $300, or that last years model is worth $500 because it was upgraded at the time of purchase. In my mind, its only worth premium money if it comes with a year warranty, has an intel core two duo chip and technology from the last two years. Also the newest model has a mini-dvi so only buy one if you know you're getting a mini-dvi to dvi connector (this will come in handy when connecting to a tv). Best free image viewer mac. The next step is to turn it into franken mac mini, by adding more ram a much bigger hard drive and the will to destroy. Then you need to setup the software. For this one step, its nice to connect it into a monitor and a keyboard. I happened to have these things for my regular computer, so it wasn't much of a problem for me. Make sure you're operating system is completely up-to-date: Apple menu>Software update The instructable below also details how to: Become a mac developer member and install the developer tools Install all needed quicktime codecs Install fink for the open source software Install VLC for your secondary movie player The last step is to set all the needed system preferences and settings so you never have to plug in a keyboard again. Check it out at. Eventually, you hope your mac mini will be sitting on the shelf minding its own business.
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