Well, my friend has no monitor plugged in at all, and he experiences no sluggishness, no performance lag at all. It runs as smooth as my iMac. So I guess it is hit or miss. On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can, but it is painful. I did that for months, and people on this list > kept telling me to get a monitor as I kept complaining of slow performance, > choppy speech, delayed keyboard reaction, and other problems. Well, I finally > bit the bullet and got the adapter to plug my old flat panel monitor into the > mini and things sped way up; no more delays or anything. My only slowness now > comes from my having just 2gb of ram, but it is way, way better than when I > was running with no screen at all. You don't have to have the screen turned > on, just plugged into power and the mini so the mac can detect it and be > happy. > On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Kliphton <kliph...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This may be a case where both those reps were trying to get you to buy a >> monitor from them. I know 3 people right now, who use the Mac mini without >> a monitor. And I will be doing the same next week. So yes, you can use a >> Mac mini without a monitor. >> >> Kliphton-SR >> (twitter&Skype) kliphton72 >> )(iMessage, FaceTime&Email) kliph...@gmail.com >> (life journal) kliphton.wordpress.com >> http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie >> Sent from Minister Miller's iPhone5 >> >> On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Joanne Chua <shuang.an...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi There, >> >> I've an enquiry from one of my friend. She's looking at getting a >> MacMini but is not sure if it can operates without a mornitor. As >> she's totally blind, a mornitor aint gonna help her alot. >> I've try to contact Apple yesterday to explain the situation to them, >> unfortunately, they insist that "a MacMini can't be operate without a >> mornitor because you have no way seeing at the screen without a >> mornitor.". At first, i thought might be the customer cunsultant lack >> of knowledge with the capability of there products, then i tried again >> a little later with the similar answer. >> I'm certain there's some Mac user here that using MacMini on this >> list. Can you please share some light on this matter? >> >> thanks >> >> Regards >> Joanne >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > -- > 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.
