Hi Kevin, I have just bought a new Mac mini and the answer to your questions are as follows: 1. The new Mac Mini does not come with a built in optical drive. 2. I believe the maximum amount of memory which can be fitted is 16gb 3. Although I set up my mini whilst it was connected to a monitor, I have since tried it with the monitor disconnected, it runs fine with no monitor and voiceover running.
Hope this helps,. Steve. 6 Feb 2014, at 07:38, Kevin Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I have three questions: > 1. do new Mac Minis have CD ROM drives anymore? I'm thinking of buying a > new one to replace my aging XP DAW, and wonder how I'm going to get all my > soft synth libraries installed if there is no CD-ROM drive on the machine. > the specs my wife read to me made no mention of a CD-DVD drive. > > 2. the next question is this, what is the maximum amount of RAM Apple will > put in a Mac Mini? Is it 8GB or 16GB? > > > 3. I bought my first Mac Mini in 2010 and tried to run it without a > Monitor. As I recall, I was successful. but I recall there being some > discussion about how Mac Minis of that era ran sluggishly or not at all with > VO if a monitor was not connected. For reasons of portability, I would like > the option of being able to use my Mac Mini without a monitor if I happen to > be in a place where a suitable monitor isn't available, but all the rest of > my easily transportable stuff, small MIDi keyboard, small flash drives, etc > are in my small backpack. Does anyone know if current Mac Minis can or can't > use VoiceOver in the absence of a monitor? > > > Thanks, > Kevin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
