Hi Mike, Congratulations on your new Mac Mini. You asked about automatic updates. Under your Apple menu there is an option named "Software Update". VO-M to the Apple menu on the menu bar, arrow down to this option, and press return. It will run a check for new software. If you bring up its preferences menu (Command-comma), the first tab, which is "Scheduled Check", has a button to "Check Now", information on when the last software update was run, and checkboxes for "Check for updates" (with a pop up button for weekly, daily, or monthly) and for "Download important updates automatically". The second tab, "Installed Updates", has a table of the date, name, and version number of your installed updates.
Incidentally, if you are not planning to connect a monitor to your Mac Mini, you should be aware that you may see slower performance, because apparently some system processes check whether a monitor or other video display device is attached. There is a fix for this if you attach a video adapter connector to the Mini. This is the kind of connector that attaches to a television -- not a monitor. When you use a monitor connector the Mini can tell that there isn't a live monitor connected to the other end; with the video connector there's no such feedback. People using earlier model Intel Mac Minis without a monitor solved this issue by buying the "Apple DVI to Video Adapter" -- a $19 connector. If you have the latest Mac Mini, they've changed the connector plug from DVI to mini-DVI, so you would presumably need the "Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter" to solve performance issues if you don't plan to connect a monitor to your Mini: http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9319G/A However, we haven't had anybody on list talk about owning the newest model Mac Mini yet <smile>. You can read James' recent post about "Slow Mac Mini" to read about the symptoms: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02102.html I believe all these problems have now gone away with his purchase of the Apple DVI to Video Adapter. HTH Cheers, Esther On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:45 AM, Mike Reiser wrote > > Hello all, > > First of all I just wanted to report that my mac mini is now ordered. > The apple support person was very nice and helpfull, though he didn't > know spacifics on voiceover and didn't know for example that MS office > isn't accessible on the mac as he asked me if I needed it. On > tutorials > that I've heard you can enable automatic updates for mac. I'm just > wondering how if vo tells you if an update is available and if it's > being installed? Thanks, > > Mike > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
