I’ve not tried this before, I thought Airdrop was supposed to be able to allow you to do this?
Have you checked the exact model of your Mac? You can do this easily enough though the method you use varies slightly depending on which operating system you have installed, if you have a 2011 iMac then there’s no reason at all why you shouldn’t have the latest OS 10.10 installed. > On 12 Nov 2014, at 9:15 am, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > One problem i have with my old mid 2011 mac mini is that i can not send files > from my mac to my ipad mini. > Even though i have bluetooth on and wifi on on both devices. > Its also said in the apple knowledge base that it should work on a mac mini > mid 2011. > Its good to be able to do this as i download a lot of daisybooks to my mac > and want to transfer them wirelessly to my ipad and read them with voice > dream. > /A >> 11 nov 2014 kl. 23:06 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>: >> >> The new Mac Mini models have slightly different specifications to the late >> 2012 model I own, in short the cheaper models don’t have as powerful >> processors however that’s probably not an issue for most people if they get >> a SSD or Fusion drive anyway. >> >> The whole point I guess of apple doing this is to make the Mac Mini more >> affordable than it ever has been before. >> >> If anyone wants further information on the Mac Mini then go look it up on >> the Apple Store and design your own custom Mac Mini with the specs you want, >> the memory you want, hard drive you need and so on, she the figures change >> before your very eyes <smile>. >> >>> On 12 Nov 2014, at 8:57 am, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> This sounds very intresting. >>> Guess i have to have a look at a new one soon. >>> /A >>>> 11 nov 2014 kl. 17:18 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>: >>>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I’ve had my new Mac Mini for about a month now and thought I’d share some >>>> observations with you. >>>> >>>> The Mac Mini is fast turning into my main computer of choice because of >>>> its speed and power, here’s an example which I think illustrates the point >>>> rather well. >>>> >>>> I’m testing a Mp3 player, I deleted all my Mp3 collection a few weeks back >>>> so I needed to create or download some more, given I have a good FLAC >>>> collection it made sense I guess to convert some of those, I started with >>>> the Beatles Singles collection 4 CD set from 1962-1970 which contains more >>>> than 40 tracks. >>>> >>>> Conversion was over in around 30 seconds and I was using the highest >>>> settings with the LAME MP3 encoder to get the best I could out of it, on >>>> my Windows desktop and other machines such a conversion task would have >>>> taken around 20 minutes or even longer. >>>> >>>> I spoke to someone about this and he reckoned it would have only taken 5 >>>> seconds or so with his Mac Pro machine and so it ought to given that his >>>> machine contains 8 quad core i7 processors <smile>, mine only contains one >>>> but I think the major contributing factor here is the Fusion Drive that my >>>> Mac Mini uses, put simply a fusion drive is a 1TB standard hard drive with >>>> a 128GB SSD drive incorporated into the design, when idle the operating >>>> system decides what resides on the SSD and what doesn’t based on the most >>>> accessed files, most run applications and so on. >>>> >>>> Now I’m not writing this post as an advertisement for Mac Mini machines as >>>> I’m sure similar can be accomplished with Windows PC’s, I’m writing this >>>> because I’m amazed at just how far we’ve come, encoding and creating of >>>> MP3 files used to take hours if not many minutes not all that long ago. >>>> >>>> >>>> ********** >>>> >>>> Dane Trethowan >>>> grtd...@internode.on.net >>>> Skype: grtdane12 >>>> Phone US (213) 438-9741 >>>> Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 >>>> Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 >>>> Mobile: +61400494862 >>>> faceTime +61400494862 >>>> Fax +61397437954 >>>> Twitter: @grtdane >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ********** >> >> Dane Trethowan >> grtd...@internode.on.net >> Skype: grtdane12 >> Phone US (213) 438-9741 >> Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 >> Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 >> Mobile: +61400494862 >> faceTime +61400494862 >> Fax +61397437954 >> Twitter: @grtdane >> >> >> >> >> > > ********** Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
