On 6/2/2009 2:39 PM, Esther wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > > > I will try to connect my monitor just to be safe. When you enable the automatic update check will voiceover read it when it does the scheduled check? I have a flat screen monitor so I wonder if it's supported or not? Thanks,
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