Does new Mac Mini 2011 have a DVD option?

Will the DVD Air External Superdrive work on the 4 gb Mac Mini running Lion?

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Will the DVD Air External Superdrive work on the 4 gb Mac Mini running Lion?
Yes.

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I just bought a new mac mini and an external DVD burner. I want to burn a DVD video and it will not play on the TV but only on the computer? Need this figured out for tomorrow.

I just bought a new mac mini and an external DVD burner. I want to burn a DVD video and it will not play on the TV but only on the computer? Need this figured out for tomorrow. Can anyone help me?

Congratulations on the new Mini. Are you saying you tried burning and it does not play, or do you want to burn it only for the computer to be able to play it?
OS X Mountain Lion: Burn a CD or DVD may help.

Can I install Windows XP SP1 with Bootcamp on my new Mac Mini 2011 i7 ?

Can I install Windows XP SP1 with Bootcamp on my new Mac Mini 2011 i7 ?

Baiscally if your Mini came with Lion Pre-installed new then No you can't use XP.
The Lion installed computers no longer support XP OR Vista via Apple's Boot Camp.
For one thing Apple only supported XP with SP2 in order to install it on pre Lion computers.
If the Mini had come pre-installed new with say 10.6 then you could have installed XP and still of been able to upgrade to Lion without any issues as you already have the drivers for XP installed. Lion only has the drivers for W7.

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New mac mini won't accept dvd's/cd's in the combo drive

Hello friends:
i have a new mac mini that I bought about 2 months ago (Intel, 2.0 ghz). Everything was working fine until I went to put in a DVD today. The combo drive won't accept a disc. It's not that it won't read the disc, it physically won't suck it into the drive. Instead it just sits there. If I try and push it in, nothing happens... it just bounces back out at me as if pushed by a spring. And, no, there isn't already a disc in the drive.
Can anyone suggest how to get my combo drive to work again?

Hi jrm27,
I have an older Mac Mini 1.66 GHz, but I haven't seen this problem.
I take it that the disc does go in a little way. I would think that that rules out that the drive thinks there's a CD already in the drive. I know that when I have a CD or DVD in the drive, the little doors (they're really there) are closed and won't let me insert a 2nd CD.
I presume that you have restarted your system since this started to occur?
When the system is rebooting, hold down the mouse button. This is supposed to force eject a CD. It might also trick your system into thinking there's no CD there, or resetting something.
Try different types of CDs or DVDs, just to make sure that there's not something screwy with the media that you are using. Try an old-fashioned music CD or something.
Are there any sounds the drive makes?
David

New Mac Mini won't open DVD Player, I get an error

This is a brand new mac mini (latest model bought two days ago), just opened and tried to open DVD player without any media on the DVD drive and the DVD Player doesn't open and I get this error:
There was an initialization error.
A valid video device could not be found for playback (-70017)
What could that be?
Wilfredo.

No. The DVD Player always open even if there is no media in the drive.
The problem was the Region. I needed to set the region on the drive, but the error message never told what was the problem, I had to figure it out myself.
Wilfredo.
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Why my new mac mini 2011 so hot?

Hi, im from Venezuela.
2 weeks ago acquired a new mac mini, but I noticed that when I have open Virtualbox processor overheats and the fan cooler notcooling, it is this? fails some pictures
Cold:
Hot:
My mac mini is damaged?

I'm seeing same problem - new mini mac dropping internet randomly during the day.
I bought the 1-year Mac program where I can go in for classes. I'll schedule one to talk through this.
I'll also do all the software upgrades.
Seems like a pretty general problem. Maybe it'll get some attention.
My wife hates the mac as a result of these problem.
Most of the time we end up cycling power on the router downstairs, which is a 2-5 minute fix, that's a pain 3 times daily.

Problems installing OSX Lion - new Mac Mini 2011

Hi!
I'm having major problem with my brand new Mac Mini.
I wanted to upgrade it right away after reading so many succeful upgrading reports on various forums so I bought a 120GB Intel 320 SSD disk and 2x4 GB of Kingston 1333mhz ram. I swapped the drives right away and idiotically used to original drive in a case to create an external installation USB-drive (my 4GB USB drives didn't work).
I then created a bootable USB-disk with the external original drive and tried to install but only get the circle with slash after selecting the drive in the "options" menu. If I remove the USB-drive I get a flashing folder icon. If start holding down Command + S I get a message saying that the "version of OSX is not supported on this platform".
I also tried using the Recovery Assistant HD to create a bootable recovery tool but that gives the same results.
In short:
I can't install OSX Lion on a brand new Mac Mini with upgraded HD and Ram. I don't have the original installation anymore.
Am I out of luck?

Internet Recovery solved this problem. Option+Command+R.

Does the Microsoft desktop 2000 work on the new Mac mini (2011)

I was wondering; does Microsofts desktop 2000 wireless keyboard and mouse work with the new 2011 Mac Mini? It says it requires a disk installation for software or something like that, and the new mini doesn't have an optical drive.. Please answer as soon as possible! Thanks.

If you have another Mac with a CD drive you can use that, however try the following webpage which has a download option for Mac.
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/d/wireless-keyboard-2000

Mac mini 2011 a1347 restore DVD

Hi, I have a 2011 Mac mini and where I live now I haven't a good internet access, now I have to do a full restore and it asks me to download it from the internet but that's impossible me to do because 1giga files could take months to download, I also brought long time ago a snow leopard DVD and tried to install on the Mac mini with no luck, it doesn't even boot.
Need to know if you can send me the default restore DVDs for that model of Mac mini, thnxs.

Depends on what is being called a "2011" Mac Mini. If it was purchased before July 20, 2011, or does not have the hardware or firmware revisions of July 20, 2011, then it is not a mid-2011 Mac Mini, and a system specific 10.6 installer disc would be available to it. Otherwise, that's correct, you must have a high speed internet connection somewhere to get the software, if you don't already have it.
As you'll see here:
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1347
Refers to 2010,2011, and 2012 Mac Minis. We'll need you to verify your have a Mac Mini 5,1 or later to decide whether or not you need the high speed internet. If you do, according to the System Profiler, then find yourself a place with high speed internet.

Does New Mac Mini Support Native Command Queing (NCQ) Hard Drives?

I have noticed the NCQ spec present in certain hard drives, like some Seagate drives. Does Apple support this in the 2009 Mac Mini?
Info available through Googling "Native Command Queing." Thanks.

Hi,
In most cases, if NCQ is enabled with a direct connect RAID configuration (like the internal Mac Pro bays) it does not provide significant additional performance. With some hard disk models having NCQ turned on will actually provide slower overall performance. You can see this when testing the HighPoint and Areca RAID controllers in the Mac Pro as they allow the user to turn NCQ off or on.
If you read the NCQ spec, it ibdicates performance will be significantly higher with NCQ enabled. I have grown to believe that most of this is in theory, as in real use NCQ usually provides overall negative performance results with a direct connect RAID set.
The one configuration that enabling NCQ provides a slight overall performance increase is with port multiplier (PM) enclosures.
While the Apple Mac Pro will support a hard disk with NCQ turned on. I have found hard disks with NCQ enabled will not provide measurably higher performance results than if the HD has NCQ turned off while mounted in the Apple Mac Pro.
Have fun!

New mac mini 2011 windows 7 won't connect wireless in bootcamp

When I boot into win 7 everything is fine apart from I have no wireless connection looked everywhere in setting but cannot find any way of doing it,wireless works fine in lion,I currently connect mac mini by wireless,Ethernet is not possible at this time as to far way,any body point me in right direction.
Also another prob I have is since installing bootcamp whenever I boot the mac it always boots in windows 7 how do I make it boot into lion first thanks.

Boot Camp - Installation & Setup Guide (OS X Lion)
Frequently asked questions about Lion and Boot Camp 4.0
The BootCamp Drivers have to be downloaded from inside the BootCamp Assistant (called "Windows Support Software").
Reboot into OSX and then go to System Preferences then Startup Volume and set your OSX to be the default.
For the Windows Installation this was altered.
Stefan

Time Machine, New Mac Mini 2011 Storage Drives, Restoring... questions!

Hi all,
I've currently got a 2011 Mac Mini with a 500GB internal drive, and a 1TB Firewire connected external drive. Backups are done as as single operation to my time capsule.
I've just bought a 250GB SSD and 2TB Hard Drive to fit internally to the Mac, and I'm ready to do the install.
The questions are as follows:
1- Does it matter which way round the drives go inside. Are both interfaces bootable, and when restoring from the time machine backup, can I specify the SSD as the installation drive.
2 - With reference to the above, I guess within the time machine backup there are two sections. 1, my main OS Drive (the 500GB Drive backup) and 2, my external drive backup (the 1TB drive). I presume the recovery console will prompt me to restore the main OS drive, and then when I'm back into OSX I can then perform the restoration of hte other data onto the other internal drive.
Has anyone ever done this, and if so, can they tell me how straightforward it was please?
Really looking forward to more speed, more storage, and less clutter

As far as being bootable, it does not matter which
position the drive is in. An Option key boot method
will get you to the drive the first time and then set
default once booted in OSX.
I would suggest that you get yourself and external
USB case or one of the many USB->SATA adapters
and do the initial system restore to the SSD before install.
This way you can verify that all is well with the restore
of OSX (and the drive itself) before installing in the Mini as
this is a task you REALLY want to do only once.
As to your time machine restore question, I will defer that
to someone else as I don't use time machine and personally
never cared much for it.

Why does my mac mini not recognise some DVDs? It spits them back out.

I've inherited a mac mini and whilst I'm reasonabley tech minded and use it for browsing etc, when I try to watch DVDs through it most of the time its fine, but for no obvious reason there are certain disks it just won't play. The latest is a Disney DVD I bought for my children, it's genuine, in perfect condition, but the stupid mini says it's not a valid disc and spits it out.
Bah!
TIA
Jehefinner

I've inherited a mac mini and whilst I'm reasonabley tech minded and use it for browsing etc, when I try to watch DVDs through it most of the time its fine, but for no obvious reason there are certain disks it just won't play. The latest is a Disney DVD I bought for my children, it's genuine, in perfect condition, but the stupid mini says it's not a valid disc and spits it out.
Bah!
TIA
Jehefinner

New mac Mini 2011/lion Windows 7 black screen at installation

Hi,
I'm switching to Mac and finally got the new mini i5 2.5Ghz and I'm trying to install W7 professional.
I'm using an external USB dvd r/w unit (a samsung)
In bootcamp i was able to create the driver disk and repartition the existing hard drive in two halfs of 256GB each
But when bootcamp assistant restarts the mini in order to boot from the windows installation disc, I just get a black screen and the W7 installer does not boot,
At that point neither the 32 nor the 64 bit version of W7 boots. The screen simply remains black.
I can boot from the os x partition (keeping the option key pressed unitl the boot disk selection cames out), and Lion works, but any attempt to boot from the dvdrom with w7 fails.
Anyone else encountered this issue and can help ?
Thanks!
--sav

Go to http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst118DriverPreview.aspx
and install the ATI 11.8 preview drivers.
Once installed, open the catalyst Control center (you should have a red icon in the notification tray)
and in one of the settings there is an "overscan" setting.
you should see a slider, position it to "0%" and you should have full screen.
For some reason the overscan defautl setting is set at -15%, hence the black bars.
I spent quite a lot of time on this, mainly because the bootcamp ATI drivers did not have any setting page I could find. I then installedd the official 11.7 drivers, but I could not get the Catalist Control Center to show up, not sure why.
Finally after reading forums for hours I gave the 11.8 a try, as it seems thare are some improvements (but mostly performances) for the HD 6xxx graphics cards, then finally it worked and i could access the overscan settings.
You may want to try first to see if you have the overscan setting before installing any new drivers.
Hope this helps
--sav

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