Yes, mini has four usb ports, so keyboard, mouse, tv tuner card, USB harddrive, Superdrive, oops, that's five. Seven, if you count the fact theTV card won't work without a direct connection and it blocks two ports because they designed it for the laptops, not the mini. Sigh, I am really getting sick of a lot of Apple's s&**t.
Major problem for six months they can't solve, now they don't even acknowledge me. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 9:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Possible bug in Lion Hi, I believe that Apple discourages connecting keyboards through USB hubs. In the past, such a configuration could actually cause significant erratic behaviour and sometimes other very undesirable OS difficulties. This was years ago so it's possible that things have changed but I would recommend that you always leave the keyboard connected directly and use the USB hub for non-essential devices. Later... On 2012-02-12, at 7:09 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. To save precious USB connections on my Mac Mini I used a usb hub to connect both my mouse and my PC style keyboard to my Mini. Both the mouse and keyboard work fine in this configuration, the only problem is every time I restart the computer I have to remap the Windows/Alt keys to the Option/command layout that is more traditional because Lion seems to be losing these settings. -- 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. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- 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. -- 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.
