My thought exactly. I may not have worded it exactly correctly, but my job of demonstrating tech to people requires me to take it with me a lot. But, you had a good idea about that adaptor, that's the sort of thing I was thinking about. I'll do some online research and see what I can find. Courtney On 06/05/2010, at 4:46 in the Afternoon, Romack wrote:
> A couple points to note here: > > Ben - Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Rude, much? Consider that new members join > this list every day, and they aren't privi to previous threads, unless > they have no social life and sit and read every message dated back to > the conception of this list. Apple picked a name for this product line > that draws the to the assumption that the computer is "mini" enough to > be portable. Consider that not everyone is as informed as you. Okay? > > For the sake of this thread, and the notion that Ben may explode in a > fiery ball of rage with what I am about to propose - what if an > adapter was plugged into the display port of the Mini, but no display > was actually attached? Could one purchase some sort of VGA-to-RCA > adapter (if one such adapter exists), and plug it into something > portable that receives RCA-in? Just a thought from an ignorant Apple- > head. > > romack > > www.justinromack.com > twitter.com/justinromack > > On May 6, 8:00 am, "Neil James" <nei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ben, if you had read the post more carefully, perhaps you wouldn't have been >> so quick to fly off the handle? The question was if there exists a portable >> monitor not how portable the mini is. To answer the original question >> though, the smallest monitor I have come across, was a screen size of 12 >> inches, so while doable, it isn't exactly a portable monitor. >> >> Neil >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <bmustillr...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 11:45 AM >> Subject: Re: Mack Mini and Monitor? >> >>> Not portable in the sense that you could carry it to work. >>> How many times do we have to say to people that a mini is not portable? >> >>> On 05/05/2010, Courtney Curran <moopiecur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> Since a new Mack mini apparently must have a monitor, are there any >>>> portable >>>> monitors like USB monitors or something. I take my Mack mini to work a >>>> lot. >>>> I'm not using any monitor now, Safari seems busy a lot, but is still very >>>> functional. >>>> Thanks, >>>> Courtney >> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >> >>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>> signature database 5090 (20100506) __________ >> >>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >>> http://www.eset.com >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature >> database 5090 (20100506) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
