wow,
I have a mac mini mid 2010 is this still one that runs with the fake monitor 
adaptor thing? I find it works ok for me but now I am wondering if I would get 
better performance if I hooked up a real monitor. Does anyone know with which 
version of mini this changes/

Thanks,

Ioana 

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On Nov 25, 2012, at 10:32 PM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote:

> Right, I never turn the monitor on that attached to either of my mac minis, 
> still, it's annoying that it requires that. Fortunately I already had these 
> monitors, it would be difficult to justify buying a monitor that I would not 
> use.
> On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:07 PM, "Jesus Garcia" <jesusga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> No the cable alone is not sufficient the machine needs to see a monitor at
>> the other end of the connection. However it does not have to be turned on so
>> far as I have been able to determine. 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
>> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 19:06
>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: a note on running a Mini with no monitor
>> 
>> With the older minis, there was an adapter you could get that allowed the
>> mini's dvi port to connect to a regular TV. If this adapter was connected,
>> the mini would work fine. That doesn't work on the newer minis though.
>> Depending on what mini you have, it probably has a mini display port, and
>> either a mini dvi port or HDMI port. With these, the only way I have found
>> to make this work is to connect a monitor of some kind, I don't think just
>> the cable is sufficient, I could be wrong there though.
>> On Nov 25, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am way too nice and let a friend have my vga cable. I now have no
>> monitor hooked up to my Mini, which is running 10.8.2, and said mini would
>> be glaring at me if it could. It is slow to do just about everything, and
>> nothing is running now that was not running when I shut down a couple days
>> ago. So, for me at least, a monitor is indeed essential. Now I just have to
>> pray for a vga cable to fall out of the sky...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Have a great day,
>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
>>> mehg...@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
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