General Mac Mini Questions/Inquiries

I had recently complained to my mom about our old monitor on our PC and she surprised me with an HP 24" widescreen monitor. This was a great gift on her behalf, but I have this monster connected to a Dell Tower.
I have a serious interest in shedding the Dell tower for a mac mini. My first question is, should their be a flawless transfer over if I shed the old tower and hook the fantastic new monitor up to a Mac Mini? Also, I see the Mac Mini runs on wireless G. Do you think that's substancially slower than the Wireless N band that the Imac posseses? Will I be able to run and use Imovie and Final Cut Pro nicely using the mac mini?
Sorry for all the questions, but responses are greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
PS.
Is their any advantage over using a new Imac vs. a Mac Mini and my HP monitor?

I don't see any reason the monitor shouldn't work with the mini since the mini supports 1920x1200 resolution with the DVI connection (the same as your monitor). Check out all the mini's specs here:
http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
With respect to overall performance of the mini versus an iMac, there will be less graphic performance with the mini due to the integrated Intel video processor as opposed to a dedicated video card. Also, the mini's hard drive and bus speeds are slower which gives overall diminished system performance compared to an iMac. For casual iMovie projects a mini is probably OK, but for more intensive video projects, it may not be the best mac for the job.

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Mac mini questions and advice.

i'd like to eventually purchase a mac mini, but is the apple care protection plan worth it??? sorry multiple questions will a fully loaded mac mini 160 gb hard drive and 2 gigs of ram be an improvement over my current set up... pentium 4, 1.60 GHz.... 1.59 GHz, 512 mb of ram... 70.2gb hard drive
one more question, will there be any trouble hooking up the mac mini to my 32 inch sony lcd.
sorry for all the questions, would appreciate any advice and feedback.

Can you give us the model number of your 32 inch Sony lcd? The Mini supports resolutions up to 1920x1200. We need to find out what kind of beast your 32 inch Sony is; it sounds kinda big for a regular monitor -- more like a TV display.
Hard to say if the Mini will be an improvement over your PC, unless we know what programs you want to run. It would obviously be an improvement in term of security; you won't be worrying about keeping virus definitions up-to-date every week.
I use a KVM switch to run my Mini and a PC with an IBM keyboard and a Dell LCD monitor. I had to experiment with several models of KVM to find one I liked.
I also use Parallels to run Windows and Linux directly on my Mini at the same time I run Mac OS. Useful for work-flows that require Mac and WinXP/Linux programs simultaneously.
You can buy and register AppleCare anytime during your first year of ownership. AppleCare gives you access to phone support, which might be useful to a first-time Mac user. You can buy AppleCare for less from some on-line retailers -- for example google for lacomputercompany. Be sure you buy the correct AppleCare for your Mac.
Wireless generally works fine, though some non-apple wifi routers with old firmware have issues. In instances of range or compatibility problems, often a wireless ethernet bridge can solve the problem. These are inexpensive and involve no software, since they plug into the mini's ethernet port.
If you are doing massive one-time file transfers, I'd strongly recommend connecting your Mini directly via ethernet cable to your router. This will save time and eliminate several possible sources of trouble. Save the wifi for your web interactions after you transfer the bulk of files from your PC.
Regarding pictures and music ... if they are in standard formats like mp3 and jpg, then iTunes and iPhoto should be able to import them just fine. If the music is protected by Microsoft's "plays-for-sure" digital rights management scheme, you may be out of luck. If your music is already in iTunes for Windows, also no problem.
Although you didn't ask, at some point you may need external storage for your Mini. Be sure to get an external drive that supports Firewire. This is preferable to drives that just support USB, though you can get models that support both. Firewire will be significantly faster and more reliable with your Mac.

Video/Photo Editing on the Mac Mini (question mark?)

I recently discovered the Mac Mini and immediatly thought "what a great thing, a cheeper version of a mac that i can use to edit things like video and potentialy pictures!"
However, it has been brought to my attention that the mini might not be the most powerful machine and potentialy incapable of handeling video/photo editing due to a less powerful graphics card.
My question pretty much is, can I effectivly edit on a mac mini or is there a way to upgrade the video card to make it more capable?
thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
One of the users in my system bought a mini specifically for video work - and it works extremely well. The on-board graphics don't obstruct effective use of the system for this sort of work at all, and in fact video work is perfectly feasible on systems with vastly inferior graphics cards than the one used in the mini, so that should not be a concern. The same is true of photo editing.
It's certainly true that the mini isn't the most powerful Mac of course, but to put that in context, the current Intel minis are on a general par in processing power to the top of the range G5 powermacs of 3 years ago - many of which are still in use in demanding circumstances. The mini's drawbacks are the lack of internal expansion options and the relatively slow hard drive, but a the former can be largely overcome by adding desired components externally, such as extra hard drives and burners, and the impact of the second can be mitigated to a significant degree by maxing out the RAM. Thus a 1.6 mini with 2Gb RAM will perform rather better than a 1.8 mini with the stock 512Mb.
In practice, the video card is good for all tasks short of 3D gaming - which is just as well since it's embedded on the logic board and thus cannot be replaced!

Keyboard and Mouse for Mac mini Question

I'm trying to convince my mom to buy a mac and she's probably going to get the cheaper mac mini.
Question about the keyboard and mouse. Does it have to be apple? She doesn't want to spend more money on a keyboard and mouse, so can she use the old one from her old gateway or e-machine? If she can, that means she'll have to know which button are which with respect to the apple button and option, so I may just go ahead and buy her the apple keyboard anyways.
And about the mouse, I assume any old mouse will work just fine?

Unfortunately I can only speak english and a bit of French and German, but really not that much!
How about this?
La sua tastiera della Mamma ed il Topo inseriranno soltanto direttamente in un mac mini se usano il Connettore di USB standard. Se sono il più vecchio P/2 connettori di tastiera di stile e topo che sono arrotondato nella forma, dovrà comprare un dispositivo adattore piccolo che converte il collegamento in una forma di USB. Lei dovrebbe essere in grado di raccogliere questi dispositivi adattori per un paio di dollari / le libbre, ma il certianly un lotto meno di una serie di tastiera di USB e topo nuova, dunque nessuno bisogno preoccuparsi lí!
-Pos

Set up mac mini Question

Hi All,
I searched for this answer and came up w/ half the answer...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2770047&#2770047
so here is the remaining part of the question:
So, i need a monitor for initial set up...do i also need a keyboard and mouse? I, too, plan to use my mac mini as a sort of media center/storage...and at some point, likely server...
Thanks
Debs

Yes, for the initial set up you will need a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse.
To set up your Mac mini as a server, check out this nice video tutorial:
http://www.freemacblog.com/mac-server-series-initial-set-up/
Hope it helps.

Leopard Server on Mac Mini Questions

Hi,
Just a few questions before purchasing everything. I would like to use a new Mac Mini 1.83Ghz, 2GB RAM to run Server 10.5. There will be 3 or 4 users at this point which all have new Mac Book Pros running 10.5.1. In the small office I want the users to connect to the server through an airport extreme base (wireless). I also want them to be able to VPN back to the server while traveling. Is all this possible and pretty straight forward?
I would also like to use the Guardian Maxmus 500GB RAID 1 setup for the share files and backup.
Also how many static IPs would one need to make this all work? Just one? The server will not be a web or mail server. It'll be mostly VPN share, iCal, etc.
Thanks

'Is all this possible?'
Yes.
'How many statics?'
One.
And yes, it is pretty straight forward.

Intel Mac Mini question

Hello all:
I am sure this has been asked before. In replacing the hard drive and RAM in my intel mac mini, one of the battery wires at the point where it goes into the coupler broke off. I had seen elsewhere that warned if this breaks, you may as well toss the device. Is this the case? Can this be replaced by buying a new battery line?
Any help would be very much appreciated since I have my daughter's computer now out of commission.

Hi Chris
Sorry to hear about the accident with the wire. Don't despair - you don't have to toss the Mini!
If it was mine, I would first take a close look at the connector to see if it be dismantled so that I could re-solder/attach the wire. If not, and assuming the connector is unique to Apple, I would source another connector from an electronics shop (you don't need anything fancy - all you are doing is connecting two wires that run a fan).
I'm reasonably competent with a soldering iron, so I would unsolder the old connector and then fit the new one. If you don't have a soldering iron or aren't confident using one, you need to find a hobbyist or repair shop that will make the changeover for you.
This isn't high-tech stuff, so no worries about screwing up the Mini (although you do need to be careful to avoid static discharges while handling the opened Mini - but then you probably already knew that before opening the case).

Apple TV/Time Capsule/Mac Mini question

Ok here is the setup.
I have a Mac Mini running iTunes with a wired connection to Time Capsule. I have an Apple TV wireless connected to the network and stream content from the Mac Mini.
1) The Mac Mini will not see Apple TV is I hook Apple TV with a wired connection - only wireless. Any idea why a wired connection won't work?
2) Apple TV loses connection several times a week to the Mac Mini. Any reason why it can't hold the connection?
3) I only want to stream content from the Mac Mini to the Apple TV, I don't need to sync. Is there any easier way to set the iTunes to stream not sync. It is a pain having to set custom sync and then go through each tab and de-select sync.
Thanks for any info.
Jeff

1) I have a cable modem and I am using the Time Capsule for the wireless, so I believe everything is on the same subnet. Not sure why the Mac Mini/iTunes won't see a wired Apple TV.
What is distributing IP addresses
2) Not sure, what would be causing the interference, but I will check it out. I would prefer to run every wired, but haven't been able to get iTunes to see the Apple TV wired.
Interference can be caused by a nearby network on the same channel (or in some cases a neighbouring channel), and household items such as a cordless phone or microwave.
3) I am using my primary library on my Mac Mini and streaming it to the Apple TV. I was just wondering if there was an easier way to select to stream items. Seems like there should be three options: 1) Sync, 2) Custom Sync, 3) Stream.
There is no stream option since by default everything that isn't synced will be streamed (with one exception, See This)

HDD, Streamlining FCS and general Mac Pro questions

Hello Everyone. I just got a Mac Pro and am setting it up.
I've got the 2.8 Quad Core, 1TB HDD and 3 Gigs of Ram, 5770 ATI
I work a lot with FCS, Maya and Adobe Products.
I didn't get the top of the line tower as I was hoping with the money I saved I can buy some add-ons. I want to get some RAM, a 2nd monitor and more hard drive space.
I work mainly with FCS doing editing. My video is mainly HD video in a 422 codec. I do a lot of compressing to H.264 as well as motion graphics and 3D. I also do a lot of transcoding as the raw footage I get is usually in a h.264 codec and comes from the Cannon 7D, T2i or the Sony EX1 and some Panasonics.
I can either by a 2TB internal 7200rpm WD or I've been looking at the SSDs. The SSD's look really tempting but are expensive compared to the HDDs. Would it be that much of a performance boost for my software if I use SSDs? I was thinking about buying a 40GB SSD and housing all my scratch files for FCS on it.
Currently (Until I get my tower set up) I've use a Macbook Pro. All of the FCS software is installed on the hdd.... all of the templates and extras I have are installed on an external GDrive. All the scratch files are stored on it as well.
If I remember right as a FCS user we are not supposed to run FCS from the same HDD which the scratch files are on, correct? Should I install a 2nd drive to save all my scratch files to and work with the media from there? I have some external HDD's but I think I would like the speed of a internal drive better.
If I buy a SSD should that be my boot up disc drive or should that be the drive which houses the media?
As a last question. What is a good way to back up my Mac Pro HDD? I have a 1TB external G Drive (FW800) a 500GB G Drive min (FW800) and an internal 1TB WD (SATA)?
Any help and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
-Fraky

Forget SSD drives in a tower - waste of money.
Fill your bays with 3 1TB or 2TB drives. Why did you put your templates on a drive other than the system? The only time I'd consider that was if I was running a laptop with very limited space. One a tower, it makes no sense. Reinstall the FCS suite and locate all the extras on the same drive as the application.
Use the G-raid as a backup system drive or use one of the tower's 4 as a clone of the system. You should always have a working backup in case the main system goes south during an update or by adding incompatible software.
Use one of the other drives in the tower for the scratch and the remaining drive(s) to store projects.
The money you save by not purchasing SSD drives should be spent on RAM. While the current FCP is 32 bit and therefor can not use more than 4 GB (2.5GB for the program and 1.5GB for the frameworks), the extra RAM will allow you run multiple apps simultaneously without starving the programs.
This question - or some variation is asked regularly. Do a search and you should find all sorts of configurations explained.
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2Part mac mini questions & thoughts of catastrophy

So it all began bout 3 days ago, as I was my mini G4 ( 512mb ram 70gb 1.2ghz I believe) the base model, one of the first to come out, it is rather old, but I really don't use it for much and its never really given me any trouble till recently. I really only use it for colloquy and the dashboard, so I was infact using colloquy when the trouble began. It was lagging a bit, and I figured I should reboot cause it had been awhile since I had restarted, I went to the menubar and quit colloquy, as I was doing that I noticed on my dock that my finder was not open, the colloquy icon quit on the dock, but the menubar stayed as colloquy, I've noticed this happened before and usually it just goes back after a few seconds. This is were the trouble began, it froze a bit, as I wondered if not having the finder open may have been to blame, idk how it closed maybe I closed it or it crashed before without me noticing. I wanted to try and force logout, as I was using my laptop with windows on it almost exclusively for the past few months I had gotten acustomed to its shortcuts, and I hit what I thought was crtlshiftesc, but what I hit on the mac keyboard was commandaltesc I believe, and at the moment the screen went black and I was in the BSD console, I've tried rebooting, loggin in as #root and rebooting, and it goes back to BSD. I tried 'exit' which I thought would go back to the aqua login screen, but no luck. I also began to try other things, like 'fsck', and '/sbin/fsck' and '-fy', '-f' I believe, but none of those did anything, and I don't mean they executed and then showed that all was good, I mean they did nothing at all, they just went to the next line, as if they meant nothing, which I find rather strange, as that should do something. ... I'm not entirely familiar with commandline Darwin/BSD, so I'm rather confused as to happened. Idk how I got into this console from osx, I think it had something to do with my finder being closed, and something may have crashed, resulting in me being forced into the text console., so I'm stuck, and I'm not sure how to get back. Also, I tried to boot into 'safe mode' and 'verbose' both just put me back into the BSD console.
That is the first part, so I've decided that I may aswell try and reinstall using the archive so I wouldnt loose anything on my hd. I had most it backed up but I had some recent writing and some music I've made that I'd like to get back. I'm without a firewire at the moment so I can't target disk mode. I inserted my install disk, and began archive installing, and it began, and as I was prompted to insert my "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" , it ejected and I put in Disc 2, and it sounded like it worked a bit, spun the disc around, and spat it out. ... So I'm wondering if somehow I can stop this, in the midst of disc two, and try and do it over, or perhaps use a new disc, or maybe a external HD. Any quick help would be so very excellent. Thank you so much! I really need help as I'm kinda stuck, and at the moment its still at Please Insert the "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" disc to continue installation.

What is the result of running Disk Utility repair volume from the Startup cd?
Print off these posts & follow. Report the results of each suggestion.
At the unix command line, no news is good news. That is command when run successfully will not report anything.
In the case of fsck, the command should take awhile & should I think report something.
You may try to recover your data by booting up an installation cd/dvd and using the terminal.
You could try getting into the Unix command line interface and copy some files or directories.
You can copy files on the Unix command line interface if you placed the flash drive the USB port before powering on your machine.
Boot up your installation CD or DVD. To do this, place to the CD or DVD its drive. Power off the the machine. Hold down the c key then power on your machine. After you specify the language you will come to the installation panel. Do not install. Go to the top of the screen and click on the tools menu item. Click on Terminal to use the command line interface.
You should verify that the files have been copied correctly by trying them in another Mac before it the deleting the original.
*Here is an overview of the commands.*
Lets assume that the problem account has a short user name of mac.
#Copy directory "/Applications/Applescript files" to
# directory "/Volumes/Spotless/Applescript files".
# "Spotless" is my flash drive.
ditto -X -rsrc /Applications/Applescript\ files /Volumes/Spotless/Applescript\ files
#cd is change directory
cd /Volumes/COPYIT/answers/
# pwd is print working directory
pwd
#the ls command is for list
# l is long
# a to show hidden files. not shown in this example.
# F is type of file where / is directory
sh-2.05b# # Please note ls is the list command. l is a lower case L
sh-2.05b# ls -lF
Here is what these commands mean:
cd is change directory
pwd is a print working directory
ls is list
sudo is Super user do
# The sudo command will ask for your administration password. No characters will appear when typing your password. Press return when done typing.
cp is copy
copy a file example:
sh-2.05b#
sh-2.05b# cd /Volumes/Macintosh-HD/Users/mac/desktop
sh-2.05b# pwd
/Volumes/Macintosh-HD/Users/mac/desktop
sh-2.05b# cp -i answers.txt /Volumes/SpotMore
Will copy the file answers.txt in the directory SpotMore.
Some files have a space in the name. You need to escape. see example:
mac $ ls -l ~/"see it"
-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 3171 Oct 26 23:38 /Users/mac/see it
mac $
mac $ cd /Users/mac/Desktop/ttt\ html\ copy/
Do you know about tabing? Type in a few letters of a name then press the tab key. The computer will type out the rest of the name if it is unique.
The up arrow key will retrive the previous command. You the left arror and right arror keys to move around. Use the delete key to delete a character to the left.
<eol>
*More examples and moving around*
sh-2.05b# pwd
sh-2.05b# ls /Volumes
.Trashes Classic Macintosh-HD
._.Trashes Mac OS X Install DVD SpotMore
sh-2.05b#
sh-2.05b# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk4s3 2.6G 2.5G 89M 97% /
devfs 121K 121K 0B 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
<volfs> 512K 512K 0B 100% /.vol
/dev/disk5 467K 9.0K 435K 2% /Volumes
/dev/disk6 95K 64K 27K 70% /private/var/tmp
/dev/disk7 95K 14K 77K 15% /private/var/run
/dev/disk3s1 3.7G 1.3G 2.5G 34% /Volumes/SpotMore
/dev/disk0s10 1.1G 1.1G 3.4M 100% /Volumes/Classic
/dev/disk0s12 70G 45G 25G 65% /Volumes/Macintosh-HD
sh-2.05b#
sh-2.05b# cd /Volumes/SpotMore/
sh-2.05b# pwd
/Volumes/SpotMore
sh-2.05b# # Please note ls is the list command. l is a lower case L
sh-2.05b# ls -l
total 880
-rw-r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 6148 Sep 10 2010 .DS_Store
drw------- 4 unknown unknown 136 Aug 25 2010 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwt 3 unknown unknown 102 Sep 3 2010 .TemporaryItems
d-wx-wx-wt 3 unknown unknown 102 Sep 10 2010 .Trashes
drwx------ 3 unknown unknown 102 Sep 3 2010 Desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 18944 Aug 27 2010 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 2 Jul 29 2010 Desktop DF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 unknown unknown 26281 Oct 27 2009 Warranty Information.PDF
drwxr-xr-x 13 unknown unknown 442 Aug 4 2010 backup
drwxr-xr-x 13 unknown unknown 442 Aug 4 2010 backupPrior
drwxr-xr-x 7 unknown unknown 238 Aug 27 2010 cons
drwxr-xr-x 65 unknown unknown 2210 Sep 4 2010 iMac-back
... clipped ...
sh-2.05b#
sh-2.05b# cd /Volumes/Macintosh-HD/Users/mac/desktop
sh-2.05b# pwd
/Volumes/Macintosh-HD/Users/mac/desktop
sh-2.05b# # Please note ls is the list command. l is a lower case L
sh-2.05b# ls
Z2300 iMac
.DS_Store move
.FBCIndex new Belward
.FBCLockFolder primary-comments-new copy.doc
Consolidate-rc primary-comments-new.doc
Downloads psc 1200
... clipped ...
sh-2.05b# ditto -X -rsrc iMac /Volumes/SpotMore/iMac-back
sh-2.05b#
sh-2.05b# # Please note ls is the list command. l is a lower case L
sh-2.05b# ls -h /Volumes/SpotMore/iMac-back/
total 2800
-rw-r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 24K Sep 12 2010 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 2K Apr 18 2010 Differentiate Between Models .html
... clipped ...
sh-2.05b# pwd
/Volumes/Macintosh-HD/Users/mac/desktop
sh-2.05b# ls
Z2300 iMac
.DS_Store move
.FBCIndex new Belward
.FBCLockFolder primary-comments-new copy.doc
... clipped ...
sh-2.05b#
Robert

Photobooth mac mini lion

I recently upgrade to Lion a couple of months. I opened my photobooth application and it was very laggy and slow. Hopefully someone can help me with this problem.

coocooforcocoapuffs wrote:
But my big question here is: why isn't this product treated like a seperate product, with it's own forum? or docs on setup? All I can find in how to install/migrate Lion server, but nothing specific to the stuff in the box (preconfigured lion server, two drives, etc.) So do I just try and use the installing Lion Server docs and try and figure out where to jump in?
Also, is there a site where I can go to get answers about the setup itself... I have the PeachPit Apple Pro book, but again, it's really dense. I don't want to be certified, I just want to set up a webserver, learn about Active Directory, set up workgroup access for a small team, set up a media and mail server. That's it
There is in fact a forum for Lion Server Right here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/servers_enterprise_software/mac_os_x_lio n_server
Just needed to scroll down further on the community list.
And going here:
http://www.apple.com/support/lionserver/
is the Lion Server support site.
This forum is for general Mac Mini hardware issues and the
above are for Lion Server issues. There is no need for
two seperate forums as they already exist.
As for the iMovie issue and MAS, that is the way Apple decided to
move since it is purchasable/upgradable software.

Mac Mini Lion Servers - just unboxed... have some ???s

Hi all, I just unshrinkwrapped two mac mini lion servers (mid 2011) and they both won't run imovie! Can anyone explain why? Oh, I see, there is an update to 9.0.6, so perhaps that will fix. I've updated everything else but the iLife stuff, which would not let me update outside of MAS. Boy, is that annoying... so I have to download those twice, and I am sitting here with the updates on a thumbdrive
But my big question here is: why isn't this product treated like a seperate product, with it's own forum? or docs on setup? All I can find in how to install/migrate Lion server, but nothing specific to the stuff in the box (preconfigured lion server, two drives, etc.) So do I just try and use the installing Lion Server docs and try and figure out where to jump in?
Also, is there a site where I can go to get answers about the setup itself... I have the PeachPit Apple Pro book, but again, it's really dense. I don't want to be certified, I just want to set up a webserver, learn about Active Directory, set up workgroup access for a small team, set up a media and mail server. That's it
Well, appreciate any pointers...
coocoo

coocooforcocoapuffs wrote:
But my big question here is: why isn't this product treated like a seperate product, with it's own forum? or docs on setup? All I can find in how to install/migrate Lion server, but nothing specific to the stuff in the box (preconfigured lion server, two drives, etc.) So do I just try and use the installing Lion Server docs and try and figure out where to jump in?
Also, is there a site where I can go to get answers about the setup itself... I have the PeachPit Apple Pro book, but again, it's really dense. I don't want to be certified, I just want to set up a webserver, learn about Active Directory, set up workgroup access for a small team, set up a media and mail server. That's it
There is in fact a forum for Lion Server Right here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/servers_enterprise_software/mac_os_x_lio n_server
Just needed to scroll down further on the community list.
And going here:
http://www.apple.com/support/lionserver/
is the Lion Server support site.
This forum is for general Mac Mini hardware issues and the
above are for Lion Server issues. There is no need for
two seperate forums as they already exist.
As for the iMovie issue and MAS, that is the way Apple decided to
move since it is purchasable/upgradable software.

Mac Mini 2014 Boots With Black Background/White Apple

Mac Mini Specs: 2014 Model with 2.6GHz processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD, Intel Iris Graphics, Mini-Display Port to DVI adapter with Dell monitor
Issue: When booting the Mac Mini up it goes through a very standard Yosemite boot but the background is black and the apple and progress bar are both white. The issue is entirely cosmetic in nature and doesn't seem to have any negative effects. What I normally expect and have seen in 30+ macs upgraded to Yosemite is the same loading but with a grey screen. It's worth noting that I have noticed this issue on 2 iMac 2010s that had been upgraded to Yosemite that belonged to some friends, but their issues were intermittent or fixed.
Steps Taken:
Updated from 10.10 to 10.10.1 and installed all other available updates
Checked the Start-up Manager, Recovery, and Internet Recovery. All have black backgrounds and internet recovery's globe is small then normal.
Reset SMC and NVRAM
Tested Safe Boot
Erase and Reinstall OS X
Removed all peripherals except monitor
Tested another monitor and DVI cable
Tested HDMI without the adapter
Replaced Mac Mini with new Mac Mini
Questions:
1. Have you seen this issue before and what are the specs of the device it occurred on? (OS, Model, Year)
2. I wonder if this might be expected but can't find anything to reference that it would be and didn't get any answers even when asking people at the store or over the phone. Have you seen any articles/pages that talk about this issue?
3. Can you think of anything else to try and resolve this?

This is normal for the newer machines running Yosemite. There's nothing wrong.

Mac mini dosnt boot with the programmer

i use some minimacs with automatic boot every day. But one dosn't start yesterday. it is blocked. I started manually and woked again. What is the cause? solution?
Can be a power supply fail ? on/off in few secons?
there is any update solution or option to put of this kind of protection?
i haven't acess to the minimac every time that this happend...
thanks,
/a

Hi Peggy
Thanks for your reply and information.
However maybe I wasn't very clear about what I was asking.
My Mini has only Windows 7 installed on it and I'm not trying to get OS X installed.
I know I could auto boot at a specific time if I had OS X installed and this maybe my only option, but it needs only Windows 7 on the Mini.
I was wondering if there is a way to auto boot the Mini without OS X. I can do this with a regular PC BIOS, but was wondering if there is a solution for Windows 7 on a Mini.
So really this isn't a Mac Mini question but a Bootcamp/Windows problem.

Keynote Performance on Mac Mini (General Question)

I'm hoping the awesome community of Apple users can provide some much needed insight for a guy who's been out of the Apple scene since 2005. I am looking to purchase a Mac Mini 2.3GHz quad-core i7 for the sole purpose of running Keynote on Sunday's at my church. Currently, we have on loan a 15" MacBook Pro (not sure the specs, but I believe it was purchased last year) and it runs Keynote like a champ! That being said, my reasoning for choosing Mac Mini is cost. Any insight into the performance of Keynote running on a vanilla Mac Mini 2.3GHz quad-core i7 would be much appreciated! Also, it would be running on multiple displays.
Thanks
1upmshrm

Keynote will run perfectly well on any new model of Mac. For good performance, adding additional RAM to the basic spec is advisable, a minimum of 8GB RAM should be fine.
We run a basic Mac MIni i5 with 8GB at an international conference centre running 8 hours every day.

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