Yup, this is a well known bug and you'll find piles of posts in the
archive about it. Apparently the Mini endlessly polls the monitor port
to find out what is attached. This often turns the machine into a slug
and other bad behavior. On older minis you can just hook up the Apple
NTSC cable which makes it think a monitor is hooked up even though there
isn't one. On newer minis the analog stuff was dropped and so you have
to hook up something more convincing. One possible solution is a
displayport to VGA adaptor ($30) and then a VGA to NTSC adaptor ($30),
but by that time it might be cheaper to just hook up a real monitor. The
NTSC (or PAL) adaptors work because NTSC doesn't have any notion of
probing the display, so you can leave them hanging with no connection to
a display and they are happy. With NTSC happy it tells the VGA it's got
a perfectly good display which tells displayport it has a good display
which makes the mini happy again.
CB
M BROWN wrote:
Several months ago I bought a Mac Mini without a monitor. Everything
went well until I tried to use Safari to browse the web. To say the
least, it was painfully slow, and at times refused to open the web
page at all. All I got was Safari busy. However, when I attached a
monitor, all the above problems went away. Even though I do not have
the monitor powered up, it still works perfectly. So, just a warning
to anyone buying a Mac Mini who intends to browse the web, forget
it unless you have a monitor attached.
Kind regards
Martin
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