John, thanks for the tip that this option is still available.

I wonder though; -seems like for the price, one might just as well by an 
inexpensive monitor! lol!

Thanks again and have an awesome day!…

Smiles,

Cara :)
On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:12 AM, John Panarese wrote:

   No, you can still fool the newer Minis into thinking you have a monitor.  I 
have a mid 2011, and it works fine without a monitor.  You need to get a mini 
VGA display port and a  converter box.  It's a setup that will run about $60 in 
total, but it works fine if you really don't want or you don't have a monitor.

Take Care

John Panarese
jpanar...@gmail.com



On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:

> You definitely need to at least have a monitor connected, the older minis, 
> from before 2008 could get around this by connecting the adapter that allows 
> you to connect it to a TV through the RCA plug. All newer minis however, must 
> be connected to a monitor, no way around it.
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Bill Holton wrote:
> 
>> Beofre I bought my Mini I called Apple twice and asked if this would be a
>> problem.  They assured me it would not.  Recently dealing with another
>> related issue they told me they had never received any complaints about
>> minis not working properly without a monitor.  I sent htem a half dozen
>> emails from people who had.  Now they don't respond to me anymore.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:24 PM
>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Major Finder Problem Caused by Dropbox!
>> 
>> Do you have the mac mini connected to a monitor, if not, it may cause this
>> kind of behavior, the monitor does not need to be turned on, just connected.
>> On Feb 12, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> 
>>> I just installed Dropbox this afternoon on my new mac mini.  I thought
>>> it installed OK and it even synced up my files from the host but now I
>>> constantly get "Finder busy" all the time whenever I open *ANY* window
>>> in the finder! At this point, the Finder is completely useless while
>>> the Dropbox app is running.  If I go into my login preferences and
>>> remove Dropbox from the startup list and log back in, I can use the
>>> finder like always.  As soon as I launch Dropbox from the
>>> applications folder or allow it to run at login, Finder goes to hell
>>> in a handbag!
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else experienced thins kind of thing? 
>>> 
>>> Note, I am using a mac mini without a monitor connected.  I surely
>>> hope this isn't also going to be a problem like the auto starting of
>>> VO when no monitor is connected.
>>> 
>>> Hey, I really want to use Dropbox but this performance hit is a show
>>> stopper for me.
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