Yesterday I took one of my Mac mini’s (Lion, for those curious) to work again so I could do a bit of a deep clean on it. Something was rattling around in it and I didn’t want to turn it back on (it’s been out of use since the Spring) without getting whatever it was […]
In the last article we took a look at the first of my 2 Mac mini purchases, “MiniServ” which acts as my home Macintosh file server. To say that, following some natural upgrades, I’m pleased with that system would be an incredible understatement – for as basic as it is, just sitting there running Snow […]
In the late Summer of 2018 I was really getting into a big kick of collecting and using old Macintosh systems. It wasn’t long after getting the MacBook mentioned in a previous article (and thus becoming “current” in the Macintosh ecosystem) that I had an idea to get a Mac mini system and use it […]
Yesterday I told the story of how I wound up having to put a new hard drive in one of my Mac mini systems and, thanks to that, also reinstall Mac OS so the computer would be usable. After an entire night of messing with the system and figuring out just what had gone on, […]
You ever have one of those night where you just have to get something done before you can go to sleep? That’s how last night was for me, thanks to the death of a hard drive in one of my 2 Mac mini systems. The unit in question is an old Core 2 Duo system […]