Hi Anouk, James, Bill, Chris, Ricardo, and Others, To shortcut the Mac Mini without a monitor thread, and to save Chris from having to reproduce his earlier forum post from the archives, may I suggest that those of you interested in running one of the new model Minis without a monitor check John Panarese's blog post on his macfortheblind site? Here's the URL: http://macfortheblind.com/?p=591
However, if you lose the link, you can just do a Google search for "macfortheblind Mac Mini". The article is titled "Adventures With My Mac Mini" and it describes the experience of setting up a recent Mac Mini for the first time. It also describes the solution Chris Blouch mentioned, of using an Apple mini display port VGA adaptor and hooking this to a VGA to NTSC converter, and gives the link to the source for this device that Chris originally supplied in an earlier list post (along with credits and thanks to Chris.) This would seem to be the fastest and most effective way to find out about this solution for running without a monitor with recent generation Macs. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 8, 2011, at 08:40, Ricardo Walker wrote: > I know I'm probably going to get some heat for this, I know different strokes > for different folks but, is owning a monitor that much of an inconvenience? > I've seen this Mac mini monitor saga go on for years now. Literally. lol. > I just don't get it. monitors are so cheap, and you can just use HDMI to > hook it up to televisions as well. I mean, why try to reinvent the wheel > here. Like, what if there is something going on on your Mac that requires > sighted help. Your going to invite a sighted person over to assist and say " > oh! Do you mind lugging your monitor over to my place? I seem to have > misplaced mine.". :). Just my 2 cents. > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> As previously mentioned, you can also use the rigged up VGA to NTSC/PAL >> converter box to trick the Mac into thinking a real monitor is hooked up. >> Check the mail archive for details or post back if you can't find them and >> want to go that route. >> >> CB >> >> On 9/8/11 5:09 AM, james Walton wrote: >>> hello >>> this has been discussed >>> sadly you do but, and i stress the word "might" i may have a theory >>> could you tell me which mac mini he will be getting? >>> the base or the upgraded mac mini >>> with the better video card? >>> thanks >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
