Booting the New Mac Mini

2012-06-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody OK; we just tried something here which has left us feeling a little bit disappointed in Apple's new policies. How far will they go down the road of control freaking? We decided to try and put one of our new Mac Mini machines on to Snow Leopard Server. So, we duly connected its

Re: Booting the New Mac Mini

2012-06-21 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Lynne, This is the same with memory upgrades, and even hard drives. You can't, for instance, swap a non-Apple hard drive into an iMac from 2011, at least not without the right firmware. I accidentally went ahead and got one that didn't have the correct firmware onboard, and the fan just

Re: Booting the New Mac Mini

2012-06-21 Thread Gordon Smith
Hello Nic I am equally disgusted to be honest. I suppose we are lucky in a way; the memory we bought from Crucial works fine and doesn't give us any issues other than the one you already know about, which I cannot talk about here. But we are jittering on the point of ordering a new machine,

Re: Booting the New Mac Mini

2012-06-21 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Oopse! I did it again! I forgot to switch accounts; sorry. Lynne On 21 Jun 2012, at 08:10, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello Nic I am equally disgusted to be honest. I suppose we are lucky in a way; the memory we bought from Crucial works fine and doesn't give us any issues