macmini

I currently have a 2010 Macbook Pro that's been upgraded with a 1 TB SSD. It has worked perfectly for development, however, with IOS 13 and Swift UI, I am going to need a new machine. I don't have much money and I don't need my machine mobile. I was considering a Mac Mini I3. As much as I...

I have a late-2015 imac 27 inch and will be acquiring a 2018 mac mini in the near future. Mac mini will be used largely headless for a plex server, but I would like to have a monitor that works well with both the imac and the mac mini, as needed. Any suggestions? Prefer high quality screen but...

Hey guys, when I eject USB drives on my MM2018 the drives spindown after eject as expected, but then they just spin up again (staying unmounted from the OS tho). Never happened on my other Macs, is it happening on yours too? Thx!

Hi, is anyone aware what cell level is used in the Mac Mini 2018's SSD NAND? SLC, MLC, TLC or even QLC? As far as i have seen (on iFixit) apple is soldering Toshiba TSB3225V81199TWNA1 chips to the logicboard. But i cannot find any info about the chips on google... Any infos?

I have a mid-2011 Mac mini which I've fitted with an SSD and 16GB RAM. It is in perfectly good condition hardware-wise, but obviously Apple doesn't consider it good enough to run macOS Mojave. I'd like to continue using this machine till the hardware fails, especially as this will be the last...

Hi, Bought 3 new Mac Minis for our conference rooms. I set two up without much issue. The third, for some reason, refuses to allow Control via ARD. I have dumped ARD prefs, reset SMC and PRAM. I can Observe. I can copy clipboard. But I cannot copy files or control the machine. All boxes are...

I was waiting for a new iMac but it didn't come out so I'll probably switch to a new Mac Mini : can anybody advice a good solution to play games with it ?

hello I have just upgraded my parents 2014 Mac Mini from Sierra to Mojave. This installation is running from external SSD. The install completed however after booting up again the computer does not boot to SSD. If I boot to old internal drive it cannot see the SSD partition and disk utility...

When the Mac Mini (targeting pro users) drops at the end of October, what dream configuration would secure your purchase? Processor/RAM/drives/ports/shape

I have a 2012 Mac mini that suddenly stopped booting. It will go into a continuous loop of trying to reboot and show the following kernel panic screen. I've heard it could be either a RAM issue or motherboard failure. If anyone can help out it would be appreciated.

So i have a macbook pro, macbook air, and a powermac g5. However, the powermac is dead. it refuses to boot or even turn on. Is the base model mac mini a viable replacement for a spotify jukebox, word processing, and light gaming?

With the announcement of Mojave all of our Macs in our office will no longer be able to develop with the latest Xcode. Although we don't necessarily use all the new features and can develop with the current (soon to be older) version of Xcode, I still want to upgrade or computers or at least...

I've been gifted a macmini 1,1, which I've upgrade to "2,1" (i.e. slapped a C2D T7400 in it + 4 GiB of RAM and an SSD), which has made it somewhat reasonable speed wise. I want to use the machine for some toy software projects which require access to frameworks that aren't available in SL...

I have a 2018 mini connected with HDMI cable to a dell 21" Wide Quad High Definition monitor. Every time I return to work after a sleep, the monitor requires a restart. Annoying as hell. HELP!

Have you ever installed Parallels, Windows 7 Prof and Quickbooks on an iMac, more specifically in an Apple network? If so, please raise your hand. I want to know if this works. A Mac business tech a few years ago said that for our <10 user network we could use a MacMini as our file server...

Every time I erased my macmini, reinstalled and after restoring from my time capsule, the macmini will backup the total 360G again on time capsule. So now the macmini backup on time capsule already more than 700G and this time it is starting over backing up 360G. How to solve this? Thanks!

Hello. I am a photographer with about 9TB of photos, which i backup to Amazon Drive using Arq Backup software. It been great up until now, as Amazon has changed their pricing structure. Is there a way that a smart idiot like myself can create my own offsite backup server? Would i have to have a...

I just purchased a new Pixelbook and want to display it to my Mac Mini / TV via Airplay. Any options?

Hi there! I recently discovered that my Mac Mini was working pretty slow. It took over 12 hours to copy and paste a 30 GB file. So I tried to reboot it, and now, I’m stuck with the boot screen. It goes all the way to the end, but nothing is happening. This is what I tried to do: Cmd + R —>...

Background of my question: 1. I have a macmini 2012. I ran Command + R and clicked Disk Utility. I picked "Macintosh HD" , clicked "First Aid", nothing showed to fix. Then I clicked "Unmount" by mistake; 2. Now only OS X Base System shows in Disk Utility (as attached photo); 3. Now I...