Can I use my macbook with a mac mini

can I use my macbook with a mac mini

You mean can you network the two Macs?
What OS X version are you running on both of your Macs?

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    There's lots of Mac Mini models since 2006 or so. What do you have?
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    Put this phrase into Google
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