What is the best way to hook up my mac mini to my LED flatscreen

I have a Samsung LED flatscrren - what is the best way to hook up a mac mini to it

HDMI cable. Works great no problems so far.

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  • What is the best external dvd drive for my Mac Mini

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  • What is the best way to share calendars between Macs?

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  • What's the best way to clone to another Mac with the same system id so I do not have to re-authorize plugins/programs?

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  • What is the best way to back up separate macs?

    I have an older Mac book pro and so does my girlfriend. We would like to back up the documents and pictures in case something happens to either one of them. We don't want to spend lots, but we want something that is reliable and easy to use.  I don't know anything about external hard drives or cloud back up solutions. Are we use one hard drive for the 2 computers, can we continue to back up the data if we move to new macs, will we be able to transfer the data? Any assistance would be appreciated.
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