Mac mini big disapointment

Okay, so for the last year I have been reading a lot about mac computers. Being a PC person as I have been for the last 15 years.

Mostly I wanted a mac for video editing on Final cut pro.

So today I went out and bought the new Mac mini (i7), and I got the overpriced mouse and keyboard. I got home really excited, I was finally gonna enjoy what I have been waiting for a long time.

First off, I couldn't sync the wireless apple keyboard, but eventually got it to sync.

But then to the big disapointment, every app I want to install, it needs me to update my os, which is 10.8.1.
And I can't do just that. I have been reading that all mac mini 2012 users can't update from 10.8.1. So we can't install other apps.

Now i'm sitting here all upset and and I can't even update anything. Is this just really unlucky or WHAT?

Any way, now what? Just wait for apple to wake the hell up? Any bright ideas?

congrats.. you must be one of the lucky few..

this thread explains the problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4514915?start=0&tstart=0

something about a update batch that apple later removed.
When I try to install any of the update files from apples homepage, it says that my computer is incompatable.

I mean, I got a mac mini, that is a apple computer, and Apple tells me I can't update it because it isn't compatible.

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im sorry that I sound so disapointed, i dont blame anybody on this forum. But I just feel so frustrated, I really wanted play around with my new mac this weekend.

But I suppose instead of trying final cut pro I can play with iMovie instead.. How different can these programs be?

I guess I just want some sympathy, my wife has a mac air from last year, and she has no problems updating her computer. one would think that my I7 quad processor would whop that mac air, but no such luck.

first of all:
When I try the update file, offered on apple.com
I get a message that I cannot install on any of my drives, as you can see.
It says that non of the drives forfil the qualifications or something.
(the language is swedish if you were curious)


and here is a photo of the message I get when trying to install the Final cut pro trial app:

Darby67 said:

Why can't you update to 10.8.2? It wasn't an issue for me:

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here is my version (in swedish)


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Defactomonkey said:

If you bought it at an Apple Store they are supposed to offer a free setup which if they uncovered this issue during setup would have swapped out the Mac Mini. Otherwise I would say just return it and get a new one. They are small so it shouldn't be an issue unless you live in the arctic tundra and combination snow shoe dog sled it 5 days and nights to the nearest Apple vendor. If that's the case then I agree!

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nah, I will just have to learn to live with just using apps like Iphoto, garageband and iMovie.

lucky that I got the quad 4, its gonna come real handy for those apps.

Darby67 said:

The build of the OS 10.8.1 that the 2012 Mini shipped with is different than that for other machines. There should be a unified OS, perhaps a supplemental or 10.8.3, that will be out relatively soon.

It would be interesting if the 10.8.2 on the Apple Support site would work or not:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1580

I'd back up anything of value before running just to be safe. If it is not compatible it will usually not let you run the update, but better safe than sorry.

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I'l try it. I think I allready have, but I will give it a go.

MoMacFan said:

@Agnoslibertine:
Too bad :-( Of course I had my versions of Aperture etc. installed at the time 10.8.1 was the latest OS, so that would not help you now.

Has anyone here done an internet install of Mac OS X on a 2012 Mac Mini lately? With a lot of luck they might already give you 10.8.2 there? Of course this would mean killing the current content and a lot of time with no guarantee that you will not end up again with 10.8.1

As for the Apple Store: As fas as I know there are no "real" ones in Sweden (tried to help my Oncle who lives in Gotheburg buying a Mac - at the end we bought it from a big electronic retailer).

So I can understand your frustration and you have my sympathy for what ever this helps you. And lets hope Apple will release a fix for this issue soon.

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actually they recently opened a apple store near stockholm (the capital city of sweden), but I moved from stockholm a couple of years ago.

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thoughts while waiting for a solution...

It feels very different playing around in Mac os compared to windows 7.
The CMD button takes some getting used to. But I love the shift, cmd, 4 option, where you can take a screen shot of just a fraction of the screen.

The mac seems to work swell with my 27 inch HP screen. And I do like the magic mouse, but again, will take some getting use to.

I just hope Apple will fix this annoying mac mini 2012 dilemma. hehe.. I just can't help but to smile when I think that all this time I have been dying to get my hands on final cut pro, and the only thing stopping me was not having a mac, and when I finally get one, Im still no able to get it.

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Darby67 said:

The build of the OS 10.8.1 that the 2012 Mini shipped with is different than that for other machines. There should be a unified OS, perhaps a supplemental or 10.8.3, that will be out relatively soon.

It would be interesting if the 10.8.2 on the Apple Support site would work or not:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1580

I'd back up anything of value before running just to be safe. If it is not compatible it will usually not let you run the update, but better safe than sorry.

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nah, get this message when clicking on past the "confirm that I have read the legal stuff"

at least the mini looks good...