Yes, probably the best intel Mini ever made. The TB3 controllers negate the soldered storage issue. But, at this point way too expensive in my opinion. They seem very rare and in same price range as early M1 Minis which are plentiful on the market.
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What have you done with an early Intel recently?
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I wanted to read some Tumblr posts but soon discovered that if you want to read them in their entirety, the site insists on you registering as a member and logging in. Not to worry, there's a solution that doesn't involve doing this. 
Using Ventura on my 13" 2012 MBP, I added the following custom filter to uBlock Origin's settings in Firefox.
Hooray! The harassment is no more.
Nice and easy. There's a few other sites that I might need to filter similarly...
Using Ventura on my 13" 2012 MBP, I added the following custom filter to uBlock Origin's settings in Firefox.
Hooray! The harassment is no more.
Nice and easy. There's a few other sites that I might need to filter similarly...
Thanks for that. I've been able to bypass the login requirement on some (but not all) sites in UBO via the </> button which turns off javascript for the current page. Your solution seems easier and more permanent.
Put in an offer on a 2011 Mac Mini Server. The plan for this is to install Lion and Adobe CS6 Master Collection, which should do well on an i7 and 16GB RAM. No other plans for it, just want to learn about the software. Fingers crossed...
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I chose the 2011 over a 12 due to needing Lion to run CS6 without having to hack things about.
I seem to have a great affinity for 2011 Macs...
And they are all quad-core i7s, except the Air.
I seem to have a great affinity for 2011 Macs...
And they are all quad-core i7s, except the Air.
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I literally have that setup with a 2012 i7 Mini . The screen does a slightly odd 1920x1200 for its size but I tend to run it at 1280xwhatever for comfort.Or a perfect minimalistic desktop.
What’s the size?
Funnily, unless you are keen on Snow Leopard, a 17inch MBP or the only computer to have Eagle Ridge, there’s little genuine reason to specifically go for one.
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They've gotten a bit cheaper but there's still a price premium due to being upgradable and for Boot Camp use. I think once Intel is dropped from macOS updates they will probably plunge in value, but we'll see.
Despite having soldered RAM the 2014 models are pretty nice for file server use because of the low power draw, and due to the general 'eww' vibe a lot of older Mac users have about it, resale values are lower than even 2012s despite the newer hardware.
User 1, web 0.
Is there a way to get rid of these stupid select any picture that has crap on it captchas? They’re driving me insane.
That and the PCIe SSD option is the only thing they have going for them. The 1.4 GHz model is outright laughable.
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IIRC, Lion was considered a disaster by most folks. Hidden folders, dissappearing scrollbars. I'd say either move up to Mountain Lion or down to Snow Leopard (my choice). CS6 runs just fine there.
Wait til' some other "user", i.e. programmer comes up with the next annoying cr@p..User 1, web 0.
Is it still possible to activate new installations of CS6? I heard Adobe had killed the servers recently.
User 1, web 0.
Is there a way to get rid of these stupid select any picture that has <crap> on it captchas? They’re driving me insane.
Not that I know of - and yes, I feel your pain.
It's particularly annoying when you're made to repeat the process several times despite selecting the correct images.
Bingo! That's who they are - Borg! Resistance is futile. Move to latest OS. Move to latest browser. You will be assimilated, no matter what.
This is how I will call the breed in the future.
If you had only 2gb of ram and a core-duo processor with a tiny drive on a CRT iMac or white plastic macbook, then Lion would be ideal, but that server is capable of a much more polished OS. I recommend High Sierra (which IIRC is the last OS that machine can run natively, and the oldest OS that will run Waterfox, which is an up-to-date/modern fork of Firefox), and it also supports Parallels 17, so you're good to run old-or-current Windows and Linux distros in hypervirtualization with all that extra ram and i7 speed getting to do something other than wait-for-the-human faster). It even supports APFS (I don't recommend running it from that format, and absolutely not if your drive is a spinner, but with High Sierra you can at least read and manipulate external APFS drives and network devices).
10" diagonally plus a little for the bezel. This is it.
The internal speaker of my white mid 2010 MacBook started cracking. After trying some googled software fixes with no results I opened the machine and cleaned the speaker. It sounds better and useable now, but not perfect. Unfortunately it seems like the rubber of the speaker got a litle porous over time. Guess it's time to look for a broken MacBook for parts.
Wasted several hours trying to install Lion on supported hardware. No matter what tricks I tried, it failed every time at the end with this:
Must be the b0rked 10.7.5 installer Apple is hosting on its server, which insists on trying to download additional gubbins and fails due to outdated certificates among other things. I gave up in the end and cloned a working installation over from my Mac Pro. Time to start hunting for older complete installers if they are still around.
Must be the b0rked 10.7.5 installer Apple is hosting on its server, which insists on trying to download additional gubbins and fails due to outdated certificates among other things. I gave up in the end and cloned a working installation over from my Mac Pro. Time to start hunting for older complete installers if they are still around.
There's a Lion installer amongst these macOS downloads, courtesy of DosDude. It has a date of 2017 so that should solve your problem. Just don't forget to alter the date otherwise the installation won't proceed.
Nope... I meant Tiger for Intel