You can find my detailed explanations in the archives but it seems that
the mini, at least a while ago, would perpetually scan for a monitor if
none was connected causing sluggish performance and other odd behavior.
Why this is is anyone's guess and maybe the latest models have fixed it
but that would be a recent change. My solution at the time was to get a
mini to VGA cable and hook that to a cheap VGA to NTSC/PAL converter. In
the early days just having a Mini to NTSC cable plugged in was
sufficient to trick the mini into thinking there was a monitor connected
but that stopped working some years ago. The newer ones started reading
the VGA sense pins and would have similar bad behavior if nothing came
back (no monitor). So the VGA to NTSC converter did the trick. The sense
pin business is really just a couple resistors jumped across a couple
pins. There used to be vendors who sold VGA 'terminators' that did this
to simulate a monitor for devices that couldn't stand not being hooked
up to one. My attempts to find a place that still sold those came up
empty every time. Lots of places listed them but when you went to order
them they were permanently out of stock. So the VGA to NTSC/PAL box
became an overgrown VGA terminator. Maybe this contraption is no longer
needed, but if not it should still do the trick.
I think the original thread from March 2010 might be here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg18524.html
and some earlier discussion about it from October 2009 here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg12086.html
So this has been going on a long time :)
CB
On 10/25/12 5:52 AM, Joanne Chua wrote:
Hi All
Thanks very much for the input. I'll definitely bring this discussion
with my friend. I guess she's thinking to save couple of hundrets and
also space by having a MacMini rather than a IMac.
I was able to test out a MacMini 2010 server version from a friend's
business. its workable, but indeed, when i plug in a mornitor, or when
i did a share mornitor screen, VO is much happier.
Thanks very much
Cheers
Joanne
On 25/10/2012, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
I wonder why that would be.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "matthew Dyer" <matthewdyer...@msn.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: MacMini
Hi,
If you have a moditor, vo will run much better. If you do not have one
then vo acts very strabnge and slowly. Programs like safari will not work
very well without a moditor.
Matthew
On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Joanne Chua 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
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