You can use an iMac as a target display for a Mini or notebook, but you do require compatible Macs. In particular, and I discovered this the hard way, you cannot drive a MiniDisplayPort iMac with a Thunderbolt Mac Mini, and you cannot drive a Thunderbolt iMac with a MDP-equipped Mini. That means your choice of OS on the Mini is limited to those that can operate without a display, or perhaps, can be installed with a separate display and then used without one. There is, as I mentioned before, also the Fit-Headless of which I bought a pack of 5 since they're so useful, though I still haven't got XP installed on my oldest Mini without a monitor due to the infusibility of automatically installing onto a pre-formatted partition and converting it to NTFS.
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