Hi! Just bought myself a nice Mid Year surprise in the form of a new Mac Mini machine and several other associated bits and pieces for the system here, been a while since I've been able to give myself a little present and no its not my Birthday <smile>.
Anyway back to the Mac Mini, I can't wait till it arrives on my doorstep, I'm very much looking forward to using a computer with a SSD drive and the new Mac Mini I ordered certainly has that, a 512GB SD drive as it happens. I've been using the USB 3.0 standard on some of the Windows PC's here and my MacBook Pro, speed is certainly addictive, I did think about replacing my iMac for the new model but it seemd rather pointless, the computer is a 2011 model, is working well and just replacing it because the new iMac model has USB 3.0 seemed quite over the top, enter the Belkin thunderbolt to USB 3.0 dock, plug this dock into your thunderbolt port and you have instant access to a USD 3.0 4 port hub amongst other useful connections. I had thought about the purchase of an external thunderbolt Hard drive but the Belkin thunderbolt USB 3.0 hub makes that purchase rather pointless given that I have quite a collection of Hitachi and Seagate external USB 3.0 drives along with several high capacity USB 3.0 memory sticks. The new Mac Mini machine will replace the 2009 Mac Mini model I'm using, the primary use of this computer is for a Media server and the flexibility of this will be greatly enhanced given that the new Mac Mini machine has a HDMI port so will plug straight into my Denon AVR2113 Surround-Sound receiver which is connected to my LCD television. I should have the machine early next week so will let you know how it all goes but a final question, does the function that turns your computer into a hard drive still work? I'm thinking of using the Migration Assistant on the new Mac Mini to transfer data directly from the older Mac Mini using a Firewire cable, if that's not possible any more then I'll have to think of another workaround, say restoring from a Time Capsule backup. The 2009 Mac Mini machine is running OSX Mountain Lion so the operating system itself shouldn't be an issue. Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
