First you need another computer (mac preferred). Even if you do, this helps you connect one computer to another to share files or promote laziness. If you have business to attend to on this computer at some point, you'll need to connect to it if you don't have a spare keyboard and monitor around. Check it out at: Įventually, you hope your mac mini will be sitting on the shelf minding its own business. Make sure you're operating system is completely up-to-date: Apple menu>Software update The instructable below also details how to: Become a mac developer member and install the developer tools Install all needed quicktime codecs Install fink for the open source software Install VLC for your secondary movie player The last step is to set all the needed system preferences and settings so you never have to plug in a keyboard again. I happened to have these things for my regular computer, so it wasn't much of a problem for me. For this one step, its nice to connect it into a monitor and a keyboard. The next step is to turn it into franken mac mini, by adding more ram a much bigger hard drive and the will to destroy. Also the newest model has a mini-dvi so only buy one if you know you're getting a mini-dvi to dvi connector (this will come in handy when connecting to a tv). In my mind, its only worth premium money if it comes with a year warranty, has an intel core two duo chip and technology from the last two years. People somehow believe that their 4 year-old mac mini with a power pc chip is still worth $300, or that last years model is worth $500 because it was upgraded at the time of purchase. For my money, I found the best deal on apple's refurbished store. In order to make the most out of this computer and especially for the upcoming updated system software that apple is releasing, I would recommend you stick with the intel mac minis. Check out the other parts at: įirst thing is first, you need a mac mini. I will probably continue to always be updating these, so post in the comments what other information is needed in each one. Each instructable is mostly independent, so you choose which ones you like. Let you're imagination go wild! I've segmented this into loads of other instructables and grouped them together as one cohesive group.
You can setup that computer to share your music over the internet, provide a large photo album site, even talk to your roomba, or play movies on your new 42" flat screen tv. Well, as I have found, having a mac mini and working as a home jack of all trades server provides loads of great advantages. Therefore, anything that can be done on a unix computer, can be done on this one. You would think to yourself, who the heck is going to use this thing? However, this computer uses less electricity than most light bulbs, works sublimely well, and of course uses the mac os x operating system, which means unix at its core.
The mac mini is basically a laptop without a screen and no keyboard or mouse included.
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