Hi Esther,
Thanks for saving me the effort of digging up Chris's info. I have it
around here, but I can never remember which folder I saved it to. *smile*
Take Care
John Panarese
jpanar...@gmail.com
On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Cara and Others,
>
> The original information about the adapter to fool recent generation Mac
> Minis into thinking a monitor is connected came from Chris Blouch, as John
> mentioned in various earlier posts on this subject. I'll paste in Chris' post
> with the part number link below.
>
> However, an easier way to find the link to specific adapter from Sewell
> Electronics is to Google for John's account, "Adventures with My Mac Mini" at
> macfortheblind, since he links the device there (I search on "macfortheblind
> mac mini monitor") to pull up this page at:
> http://macfortheblind.com/?p=591
>
> Here's the post to this list from Chris, from last August:
> <begin quote>
> Right, as far as the Mini knows it is hooked up to a monitor, which happes to
> be the VGA to NTSC adapter. I think I paid about $30 for the VGA to NTSC box.
> Yup, it was this one:
> http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp
>
> It does take a USB port for power but my Mini has four so that was fine. I
> also already had an HDMI or displayport to VGA adapter from somewhere or
> other. I think they only ship with HDMI to DVI these days.
> The end result is the mini stops its fruitless search for a monitor that
> isn't there so it can move on to more important things like doing your work.
> CB
> <end quote>
>
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
>
>> John, thanks for the tip that this option is still available.
>>
>> I wonder though; -seems like for the price, one might just as well by an
>> inexpensive monitor! lol!
>>
>> Thanks again and have an awesome day!…
>>
>> Smiles,
>>
>> Cara :)
>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:12 AM, John Panarese wrote:
>>
>> No, you can still fool the newer Minis into thinking you have a monitor. I
>> have a mid 2011, and it works fine without a monitor. You need to get a
>> mini VGA display port and a converter box. It's a setup that will run
>> about $60 in total, but it works fine if you really don't want or you don't
>> have a monitor.
>>
>> Take Care
>>
>> John Panarese
>> jpanar...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
>>
>>> You definitely need to at least have a monitor connected, the older minis,
>>> from before 2008 could get around this by connecting the adapter that
>>> allows you to connect it to a TV through the RCA plug. All newer minis
>>> however, must be connected to a monitor, no way around it.
>>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Bill Holton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Beofre I bought my Mini I called Apple twice and asked if this would be a
>>>> problem. They assured me it would not. Recently dealing with another
>>>> related issue they told me they had never received any complaints about
>>>> minis not working properly without a monitor. I sent htem a half dozen
>>>> emails from people who had. Now they don't respond to me anymore.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:24 PM
>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>>> Subject: Re: Major Finder Problem Caused by Dropbox!
>>>>
>>>> Do you have the mac mini connected to a monitor, if not, it may cause this
>>>> kind of behavior, the monitor does not need to be turned on, just
>>>> connected.
>>>> On Feb 12, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just installed Dropbox this afternoon on my new mac mini. I thought
>>>>> it installed OK and it even synced up my files from the host but now I
>>>>> constantly get "Finder busy" all the time whenever I open *ANY* window
>>>>> in the finder! At this point, the Finder is completely useless while
>>>>> the Dropbox app is running. If I go into my login preferences and
>>>>> remove Dropbox from the startup list and log back in, I can use the
>>>>> finder like always. As soon as I launch Dropbox from the
>>>>> applications folder or allow it to run at login, Finder goes to hell
>>>>> in a handbag!
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else experienced thins kind of thing?
>>>>>
>>>>> Note, I am using a mac mini without a monitor connected. I surely
>>>>> hope this isn't also going to be a problem like the auto starting of
>>>>> VO when no monitor is connected.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey, I really want to use Dropbox but this performance hit is a show
>>>>> stopper for me.
>>>>>
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