I have a 2011 Mini. Before the hard drive died, I used Apple headphones like 
that and yes, the mic worked just fine. Why that does, but other, separate miss 
don't isn't something I can explain, but that's what I've discovered. Sorry I 
forgot to mention the Apple ear pods as being usable in my last reply.
> On Sep 26, 2015, at 14:25, Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Works on both Mac portables I’ve tested here. I can’t find any information on 
> precisely which models support this feature. See this article for more 
> information: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201919
> 
> Best,
> 
> Grant
> 
>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 11:48:21 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Will that work though with the microphone as well if you do it that way?
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kawal Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Macvisionaries" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 2:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: Dictation using the Macmini
>> 
>> 
>> What I'd do is plug my apple headphones into the normal headphone socket and 
>> then wait to see if it worked.  Does that make sense?
>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 18:38, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> How do you do that, seeing that at least on the mini I have, the headphone 
>> jack and the mike/line in jack are two seperet jacks?
>> 
>> Are you somehow using a splitter of sort?
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kawal Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: Dictation using the Macmini
>> 
>> 
>> I don't have a mike at the moment. However, I could plug-in my apple 
>> headphones which have a mike you know, the one you get with your iPhone.
>> 
>>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 1:37 p.m., Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There is, but it's not the same port you'd find on many other computers. It 
>>> fits any standard microphone that uses a 3.5mm connection, but it also 
>>> requires that that microphone be powered somehow. You might want to grab 
>>> either a USB microphone, or a USB sound card into which to plug your 
>>> existing mic.
>>>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 04:56, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Please could someone tell me if there is a microphone inbuilt in the new 
>>>> Mac mini as I was trying to dictate but even though I heard the sound, no 
>>>> text appeared.  I bought this one last year around just before Christmas 
>>>> in November.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Kawal.
>>>> 
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