I always had a windows PC, just bought a Mac Mini 2011 and I'm loving it, very powerful and exciting

I always had a windows PC, just bought a Mac Mini 2011 and I'm loving it, very powerful and exciting
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Welcome, young Jedi, to the Dark Side.
Happy threads are rare these days in the "emergency room".
Master Yoda will see you in a moment, but first some basic prep-work to help you defend against "OMG! Need to reinstall but no disks!" threads.
Here is a basic bit of knowledge you may want to gain about system rebuild in the world of "no install disks included": http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
And how to make a "local/real" copy for re-install from a thumb drive you prepare: http://www.macworld.com/article/161069/2011/07/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.ht ml

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You can use Microsoft Office for Mac, one of the free Office clones such as LibreOffice or Apple's iWork suite of apps. The iWork apps - Keynote (presentation), Pages (word processing & page layout) & Numbers (spreadsheet) are available individually from the Mac App Store. There are also versions for iOS available separately. And, coming this fall, iWork for iCloud.

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Shalese wrote:
Have you ever tried the FW 400 to 800 adapter?
I have used them on multiple occasions and they work just fine.
Try this (maybe you already have):
-Boot Mini with drive disconnected.
-Do not connect drive but turn it on
-wait a few seconds for drive to spin up
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This is an old drive and may have some timing
issues.
I had an Acomdata drive a long time ago. It
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I have just bought a mac mini and am trying to set up. The unit is asking me to swith on bluetooth keyboard via pic 1 then pic 2 shows another switch.
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Symptoms
When using Setup Assistant to configure your Mac mini or iMac for the first time, the Bluetooth keyboard may have difficulty pairing.
Resolution
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Reference link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4456

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Thank you very much for your answer! I have 2 Apple ID, and I have tried both of them and the problem continues. I founf several peolpe with the same problem in apple communities foruns and that really seems that there is some problem. I addded the links for 2 of those discussions.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3374419?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16628399#16628399
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Best regards,
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Call Apple Care.
#1 - You have 14 days from the date of purchase to return your computer with no questions asked.
#2 - You have 90 days of FREE phone tech support.
#3 - If you've purchased an AppleCare Protection Plan, your warranty last for 3 years. You can obtain AppleCare anytime up to the first year of the purchase of your computer.
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Had it with Dell, just ordered a Mac Mini

For a number of reasons (that are so boring it will likely kill anyone who reads them so I won't post them here) I am going to throw my 6 month old top of the line Dell XPS in the pool.
I just ordered a Mac Mini and I can't tell you how happy I am. However I was wondering if there is anything I should expect, we warned of when I make the conversion.
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Welcome!
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A free option that would open just about all of them (and more than Office 2004 can) is NeoOffice ( http://neooffice.org ). That's what I use.
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